The effect of the magnetic pressure on gravitational collapse leading to star formation is analyzed for a wide range of masses and initial values of the temperature and of the field. The collapse time increases, passing sometimes from free fall to quasi-equilibrium. Consideration is also given to the possibility of a cloud beginning to collapse and then being stopped by the increased magnetic pressure. This last possibility is real, even if limited to particular cases.
Effect of the magnetic pressure on cloud evolution
PAOLICCHI, PAOLO
1982-01-01
Abstract
The effect of the magnetic pressure on gravitational collapse leading to star formation is analyzed for a wide range of masses and initial values of the temperature and of the field. The collapse time increases, passing sometimes from free fall to quasi-equilibrium. Consideration is also given to the possibility of a cloud beginning to collapse and then being stopped by the increased magnetic pressure. This last possibility is real, even if limited to particular cases.File in questo prodotto:
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