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Global simulations of protoplanetary disks with net magnetic flux

William BéthuneUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, FranceGeoffroy LesurUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, FranceJonathan FerreiraUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, France
2017en
ABI

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Context. The planet-forming region of protoplanetary disks is cold, dense, and therefore weakly ionized. For this reason, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is thought to be mostly absent, and another mechanism has to be found to explain gas accretion. It has been proposed that magnetized winds, launched from the ionized disk surface, could drive accretion in the presence of a large-scale magnetic field.

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