Protostellar Jets in Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Introductory Reviews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Astrophysical Jets

      • Mario Livio

      Pages 3-9

   3. Jets from Young Stars

      • John Bally

      Pages 11-20

3. The Star/Jet/Disk System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. The Star-Jet-Disk System and Angular Momentum Transfer

      • Lee Hartmann

      Pages 23-32

   3. Hot Inner Winds from T Tauri Stars

      • Christopher M. Johns-Krull

      Pages 33-41

   4. Hot Gas in Accretion Disks and Jets: An UV View of Star Formation

      • Ana I. Gómez de Castro

      Pages 43-49

   5. Generalized Multipole X-Wind Model

      • Subhanjoy Mohanty, Frank H. Shu

      Pages 51-56

   6. Instabilities in Accretion Disks

      • James M. Stone

      Pages 57-66

   7. Theory of Wind-Driving Protostellar Disks

      • Arieh Königl

      Pages 67-76

   8. Aspect Ratio Dependence in Magnetorotational Instability Shearing Box Simulations

      • Andrea Mignone, Attilio Ferrari, Gianluigi Bodo, Paola Rossi, Fausto Cattaneo

      Pages 77-82

   9. Advection/Diffusion of Large Scale Magnetic Field in Accretion Disks

      • Richard V. E. Lovelace, David M. Rothstein, Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

      Pages 83-88

   10. Magnetic Reconnection in Accretion Disk Systems: From BHs to YSOs

       • Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Pamela Piovezan, Grzegorz Kowal, Alex Lazarian

       Pages 89-95

4. Jet Launching

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Self-Collimated Jets from Accretion Discs and Star-disc Interaction Zones

      • Jonathan Ferreira

      Pages 99-110

   3. Large-Scale 3D Simulations of Protostellar Jets

      • Jan Staff, Kai Cai, Brian Niebergal, Rachid Ouyed, Ralph Pudritz

      Pages 111-116

   4. Magnetic Field Advection in Weakly Magnetised Viscous Resistive Accretion Disks: Numerical Simulations

      • Gareth C. Murphy, Claudio Zanni, Jonathan Ferreira

      Pages 117-122

   5. Extending Analytical MHD Jet Formation Models with a Finite Disk Radius

      • Matthias Stute, Kanaris Tsinganos, Nektarios Vlahakis, Titos Matsakos, José Gracia

      Pages 123-129

   6. Magnetohydrodynamic Jets from Different Magnetic Field Configurations

      • Christian Fendt

      Pages 131-136

It is over a quarter of a century since the discovery of out?ows from young stars. The intervening years have led to remarkable advances in our understanding of this phenomenon. Much of the progress can be attributed to advances in facilities and technologies, including not only larger telescopes but also improved instrument and detector performance. In addition protostellar out?ows have now been imaged from the ground and space at high spatial resolution, e. g. with HST, and at a wide - riety of wavelengths from X-rays to radio waves, revealing more and more about their physics. This veritable revolution in observation has been accompanied by an exponential growth in our ability to numerically simulate the launching and pro- gation of jets. Codes continue to improve: they now incorporate more physics and are increasingly ef?cient through, for example, techniques such as adaptive mesh re?nement and the use of parallel processing in cluster environments. Simulating the launching and propagation of a jet all the way from the vicinity of the star up to 4 several thousand AU (a size range of10 ) is now much closer. In more recent times, developments in observation, theory and numerical s- ulation have been joined by laboratory jet experiments reproducing, on centimetre scales, that which is seen in astrophysics to stretch for several parsecs.

• Accretion
• Accretion - Ejection
• Accretion Disks
• Magneto-rotational instability
• Magnetohydrodynamic jets
• Protostellar Jets
• Quasar
• Relativistic jet
• Star
• Young Stars
• stellar

• Dept. Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Kanaris Tsinganos, Matthias Stute

• Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland

  Tom Ray

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