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Magnetospherically Mediated Accretion in Classical T Tauri Stars

Paradigm for Low Mass Stars Undergoing Disk Accretion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

S. Edwards
S. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA

Abstract

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Observational evidence suggests that disk accretion in low mass stars is mediated by the stellar magnetosphere in the inner few stellar radii of a star/accretion disk system. A strong stellar field appears to disrupt the inner disk and channel accreting material in a funnel flow toward the stellar surface. It is possible that coupling between the stellar magnetosphere and the inner accretion disk plays a profound role in the evolution of a forming star, regulating its spin, establishing its initial angular momentum, and launching the ubiquitous accretion-driven outflows which are the subject of this symposium. Although the evidence that forming low mass stars undergo magnetospherically mediated accretion is considerable, there are a growing number of challenges to this paradigm which require close observational scrutiny.

Type
IV. Disks, Winds, and Magnetic Fields
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 182: Herbig-Haro Flows and the Birth of Low Mass Stars , 1997 , pp. 433 - 442
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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