HR: 0800h
AN: SH51D-0298 [Abstracts]
TI: Self-Magnetization of the Early Solar System Matter
AU: * Wiechen, H M
EM: hew@gi.alaska.edu
AF: Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks, 903 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
United States
AB:
The remnant magnetization of chondrite type meteorite matter indicates the
existence of $10^{-5}$ - $10^{-3}$ Tesla magnetic fields in the early solar
system accretion disk. Taking into account parameter regimes being typical for
this early evolutionary stage of the partially ionized dusty proto-solar
accretion disk we performed self-consistent three-dimensional multi fluid
plasma - neutral gas - dust simulations.
The results of our systematic
simulations show that shear flow driven collisional interactions are able to
yield self-induced magnetic fields of the order of $10^{-5}$ - $10^{-3}$ Tesla
in a dusty proto-planetary accretion disk on very short time scales of the order
of a few years.
Thus, shear flow induced self-magnetization can yield a
significant contribution to the magnetization of the early solar system and
is able to explain the measured remnant magnetization of meteorite material.
DE: 5465 Rings and dust
DE: 5759 Rings and dust
DE: 6015 Dust
DE: 6213 Dust
DE: 2129 Interplanetary dust
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting