Gravity and rotation drag the magnetic field in high-mass star formation.

H. Beuther; J. Soler; H. Linz; T. Henning; C. Gieser; R. Kuiper; W. Vlemmings; P. Hennebelle; S. Feng; R. Smith; A. Ahmadi

DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/abc019

Corpus ID: 222290527

Gravity and rotation drag the magnetic field in high-mass star formation.

@article{Beuther2020GravityAR,
  title={Gravity and rotation drag the magnetic field in high-mass star formation.},
  author={H. Beuther and J. Soler and H. Linz and T. Henning and C. Gieser and R. Kuiper and W. Vlemmings and P. Hennebelle and S. Feng and R. Smith and A. Ahmadi},
  journal={arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
  year={2020}
}

H. Beuther, J. Soler, +8 authors A. Ahmadi

Published 2020

Physics

arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

The formation of hot stars out of the cold interstellar medium lies at the heart of astrophysical research. Understanding the importance of magnetic fields during star formation remains a major challenge. With the advent of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the potential to study magnetic fields by polarization observations has tremendously progressed. However, the major question remains how much magnetic fields shape the star formation process or whether gravity is largely dominating. Here… CONTINUE READING

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