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A Magnetized, Moon-forming Giant Impact

  • Authors: P. D. Mullen, and C. F. Gammie

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 903 L15.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Toroidal (Eϕ, solid), radial (ER, dashed), and vertical (Ez, dotted–dashed) magnetic energies (volume averaged in cylindrical annuli described in the main text) for the magnetized calculations at two initial field strengths, B0 ≃ 1 kG (blue) and B0 ≃ 1 μG (orange). For the kilogauss run, we present two linear resolutions, Δx ≃ 175 km (bold) and Δx ≃ 350 km (fine). We overplot the growth rate expected for the most unstable MRI wavelength, γmax (black dotted).

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