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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 528, 期 1, 页码 L41-L44出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/312417
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ISM : clouds; ISM : jets and outflows; ISM : magnetic fields; stars : formation; stars : rotation
If the angular momentum of the molecular cloud core were conserved during the star formation process, a newborn star would rotate much faster than its fission speed. This constitutes the angular momentum problem of newborn stars. In this Letter, the angular momentum transfer in the contraction of a rotating magnetized cloud is studied with axisymmetric MHD simulations. Because of the large dynamic range covered by the nested-grid method, the structure of the cloud in the range from 10 AU to 0.1 pc is explored. First, the cloud experiences a runaway collapse, and a disk forms perpendicularly to the magnetic field, in which the central density increases greatly in a finite timescale. In this phase, the specific angular momentum j of the disk decreases to about one-third of the initial cloud. After the central density of the disk exceeds similar to 10(10) cm(-3), the infall on to the central object develops. In this accretion stage, the rotation motion and thus the toroidal magnetic field drive the outflow. The angular momentum of the central object is transferred efficiently by the outflow as well as by the effect of the magnetic stress. In 7000 yr from the core formation, the specific angular momentum of the central 0.17 M. decreases a factor of 10(-4) from the initial value (i.e., from 10(20) to 10(16) cm(2) s(-1)).
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