Inside-out evacuation of transitional protoplanetary discs by the magneto-rotational instability

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 604-608

  Chiang, Eugene ^a   Murray Clay, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; GASES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; ORBITS; STARS; X RAYS;

ACCRETION RATE; EXTRASOLAR; RADIATION PRESSURE;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 34548426461     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys661     Document Type: Article

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