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- Title
MRI-DRIVEN ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSPORT IN PROTOPLANETARY DISKS.
- Authors
Fromang, S.
- Abstract
Angular momentum transport in accretion disk has been the focus of intense research in theoretical astrophysics for many decades. In the past twenty years, MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability has emerged as an efficient mechanism to achieve that goal. Yet, many questions and uncertainties remain, among which the saturation level of the turbulence. The consequences of the magnetorotational instability for planet formation models are still being investigated. This lecture, given in September 2012 at the school "Role and mechanisms of angular momentum transport in the formation and early evolution of stars" in Aussois (France), aims at introducing the historical developments, current status and outstanding questions related to the magnetorotational instability that are currently at the forefront of academic research.
- Subjects
ANGULAR momentum (Nuclear physics); ROTATIONAL motion; PROTOPLANETARY disks; ASTROPHYSICS research; TURBULENCE; ORIGIN of planets; ANGULAR momentum (Mechanics)
- Publication
EAS Publications Series, 2013, Vol 62, p95
- ISSN
1633-4760
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/eas/1362004