We investigate under which conditions cold, fan-shaped winds can be steadily launched from thin (Keplerian) accretion discs. Such winds are magneto-centrifugal winds launched from a thin annulus in the disc, along open magnetic field lines that fan out above the disc. In principle, such winds could be found in two situations: (1) at the interface between an inner Jet Emitting Disc, which is itself powering magneto-centrifugally driven winds, and an outer standard accretion disc; (2) at the interface between an inner closed stellar magnetosphere and the outer standard accretion disc. We refer to Terminal or T-winds to the former kind and to Magnetospheric or M-winds to the latter.
The full set of resistive and viscous steady state MHD equations are analyzed for the disc (the annulus), which allow us to derive general expressions valid for both configurations. We find that, under the framework of our analysis, the only source of energy able to power any kind of fan-shaped winds is the viscous transport of rotational energy coming below the inner radii. Using standard local $α$ prescriptions for the anomalous (turbulent) transport of angular momentum and magnetic fields in the disc, we derive the strength of the transport coefficients that are needed to steadily sustain the global configuration. It turns out that, in order for these winds to be dynamically relevant and explain observed jets, the disc coefficients must be far much larger than values expected from current knowledge of turbulence occurring inside proto-stellar discs.
Either the current view on MHD turbulence must be deeply reconsidered or steady-state fan-shaped winds are never realized in Nature. The latter hypothesis seems to be consistent with current numerical simulations.
On the collimation properties of jets with finite Poynting flux launched from Keplerian accretion discs
University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学，法国国家科学研究中心，天体物理学与行星学研究所）；INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino（意大利国家天体物理研究所都灵天文台）
The generation of spiral density waves by MRI in accretion discs
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf（德累斯顿-罗斯多夫亥姆霍兹中心）；Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory（阿巴斯图马尼天文台）；Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Tbilisi State University（第比利斯国立大学理学院）；LyRIDS, ECE-Paris Engineering School（巴黎ECE工程学院LyRIDS）；LUTH, UMR 8102 CNRS, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon（巴黎-默东天文台CNRS联合研究实验室）
Beyond the $α$ model: scaling the wind-driven accretion rate in protoplanetary disks using systematic non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical simulations
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute of Science Tokyo（东京科学地球与行星科学系）；Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University（清华大学高等研究院天文学系）
