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In this work we examine the damping of Alfvén waves as a source of plasma heating in disks and magnetic funnels of young solar like stars, the T Tauri stars. We apply four different damping mechanisms in this study: viscous-resistive, collisional, nonlinear and turbulent, exploring a wide range of wave frequencies, from 10−5Ωi to 10−1Ωi (where Ωi is the ion-cyclotron frequency). The results show that Alfvénic heating can increase the ionization rate of accretion disks and elevate the temperature of magnetic funnels of T Tauri stars opening possibilities to explain some observational features of these objects.
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Vasconcelos, M.J., Jatenco-Pereira, V. & Opher, R. Alfvén waves in the context of solar-like star formation: accretion columns and disks. Space Science Reviews 107, 383–386 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025545805747
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