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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 635, 期 2, 页码 L165-L168出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/499560
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accretion,accretion disks; magnetic fields; stars : magnetic fields; X-rays : stars
We report the discovery of propeller-driven outflows in axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of disk accretion to rapidly rotating magnetized stars. Matter outflows in a wide cone and is centrifugally ejected from the inner regions of the disk. Closer to the axis there is a strong, collimated, magnetically dominated outflow of energy and angular momentum carried by the open magnetic field lines from the star. The efficiency of the propeller may be very high in the respect that most of the incoming disk matter is expelled from the system in winds. The star spins down rapidly due to the magnetic interaction with the disk through closed field lines and with the corona through open field lines. Diffusive and viscous interaction between the magnetosphere and the disk are important: no outflows were observed for very small values of the diffusivity and viscosity. These simulation results are applicable to the early stages of evolution of classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) and to different stages of evolution of cataclysmic variables and neutron stars in binary systems. As an example, we show that young rapidly rotating magnetized CTTSs spin down to their present slow rotation in less than 10(6) yr.
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