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A Magnetic Alternative to the Standard Viscous Accretion Disc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.G. Campbell
C.G. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

Abstract

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A magnetic alternative to the standard viscous accretion disc is presented. The magnetic field is generated and maintained in the disc by a dynamo mechanism. Magnetic stresses dominate in the advection of angular momentum, and only weak turbulence is needed to generate the required field.

Type
Part 5. Magnetic Fields and Viscosity
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 201 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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