NRAO/Socorro Colloquium Series: 7 March 2003

Zhi-Yun Li

University of Virginia


Star Formation in Magnetic Clouds


It has long been recognized that magnetic fields could change the nature of star formation, although many of the magnetic effects remain to be quantified. In this talk I will review the evidence for a dynamically important magnetic field in the low-mass star forming cores, and present magnetohydrodynamic calculations which illustrate the crucial roles played by the magnetic field in cloud fragmentation leading to binary and multiple star formation, in angular momentum redistribution in collapsing cores, which has implications for protostellar disk formation, and in the generation of the powerful outflows of young stellar objects.






Friday, 7 March 2003
11:00am

Array Operations Center Auditorium

Local Host: Debra Shepherd


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