CYG X-3 117,224. Faraday rotation 191,192,233 Flywheel mechanism 8,256 Free-fall time 156 FU Orionis 177
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1 SUBJECT INDEX Accretion tori 2,7 Advective coo1ing 274 AGN 1,4,5,6,7,9,44,51,59,68,71,123,131,224,230,233,238,255,267,273 A1fven point 80,133 A1fven-Rossby waves 38,40 A1fven speed 2,92,94,153,183,234 A1fven surface 138 A1fven waves 37,95,154,155 A1fvenic turbu1ence 155,159,279 Alpha parameter 3,47,55,63,147,238,275,280 Ambipo1ar diffusion 157,170,279 AM Hercu1is 44,107,111 Ap stars 12 Biermann battery 194 Bipolar outflows 4,5,71,123,166,167,175,179,,207,234 Black holes 5,51,66,117,235,242,244,247,273 Blazars 256,263 Bouss"inesq approximation 17,94 Braking time 156 Brunt-Vaisala frequency 94 Buoyancy force 91 Butterfly diagrams 12,19 BY Draconis binaries 13 Cataclysmic variables 4,44,51,99,107,273,280 magnetic 44,107,108,280 Centrifugally driven winds 91,99,131,170 Chromospheric emission 13 Circumste1lar disks 5,130 Circumstellar jets 165,175 Close binaries 9,43,55,107,147,223,273 Cloud co11apse 159 Cloud formation 152 Collimated outflows 225 Compton drag 194 Compton scattering 260 Convective overshoot 24,31 Convective turnover time 13,17 Coriolis force 4,14,25,38,91,198 Cosmic ray ionization 158,185 Cowling's theorem 18 Cyclonic a1pha-effect 14,15,18,24 Cyclotron harmonics 111 CYG A
2 290 CYG X-3 117,224 Dark matter 193 Deeply Embedded Infrared Sources 165 Deterministic chaos 22,267,269,284 Dicke-Alfven point 118 Diffusion coefficient 50 Disk model scalinq 9,286 Disk prominences 3 DQ Herculis 107 Dwarf Nova radioemission 113 Dwarf Novae 3,4,50,55,111,113,281 Dynamical timescale 49 Dynamo action 2,4,11,25,31,56,91,100,125,152,191,194,198,201,218, 280,281 Dynamo number 19,24 Dynamo time 199 Eddington accretion rate 130,257 Eddington limit 256,274 Eddington tensor 215,217 Electron gyrofrequency 114 Enerqetic molecular outflows 208 Entropy principle 8 Entropy principle method 248 Event horizon 245 EXOSAT 267 Extragalactic radio sources 204 Faraday rotation 191,192,233 Flywheel mechanism 8,256 Free-fall time 156 FU Orionis 177 Galactic halos 191 Galactic magnetic field 151,279 Galactic magnetic fields 191 Geomagnetic secular variation 41 Goldreich-Julian charge density 285 Goldreich-Julian current 139 Grad-Schluter-Shafranov equation 5,130,137 Gravars 10,283,285 Hamilton's principle 93 Helicity 11,15 Helioseismology 2,15 Herbig-Haro objects 207,209 HH High entropy AGN engines 10,284 Hopf bifurcation 17,22
3 291 Hot and cool disk states 56 Hot wind equation 5,135 Hoy1e-type fragmentation 159 Hyades 13 Hydromagnetic winds 211,218,256 Induction equation 73,169 Initial mass function 200 Intermediate polars 4 Interstellar clouds 1,5,179,185 Interstellar dust 186 Interstellar gas 151 Interstellar grains 185 Interstellar medium 191,200 Ion torus 5,257,258 IRAS IUE 56,99 Jacobi ellipsoid 44 Jeans instability 183,197 Jeans mass 159,198 Jet axial energy 86,87 Jet dissipation 284 Jet formation 7,9,137 Jet propagation 224,225 Jet rotationa1 energy 86,87 Jet state vector 82 Jet termination 286 Jets adiabatic 82,85 asymptotic 124 cylindrical 203,228 H-alpha 124 isothermal 82,85 magnetica11y col1imated 72,75 magnetically driven 72,75 pu1sed 124 re1ativistic 129,263 slab 204 supermagnetosonic 138 Kelvin-Helmholtz instability 35,228,234 Kep1erian disks 46,89,99,166,168,199,273,280,284 Kep1erian frequency 44,102,147,234 Kerr black holes 130,139 Kerr spacetime 134 Killing fie1ds 133 Kraska1-Shafranov criterion 239 L
4 292 L Lagrangian points 147 Light cy1inder 134 Lorentz force 19,38,157 Low entropy AGN engines 10,283 M ,228,283 Mach number 63,199,206,226 Magnetic Prandt1 number 102 Magnetic Reyno1ds number 92 Magnetic braking 5,7,111,156,167,179,200,238,279 Magnetic buoyancy 24,161 Magnetic diffusivity 7,18,32,73,92,100 Magnetic fie1d reconnection 218,281 Magnetic f1ux 13 Magnetic f1ux function 18,73,138 Magnetic flux 1eakage 100,158,279 Magnetic flux tubes 4,91 Magnetic he1icity 198 Magnetic moment 111 Magnetic nozz1e 142 Magnetic pinch effect 183 Magnetic shear 91 Magnetic sling effect 118,129,142,233 Maser 4,115,207,208,280 Maunder minima 12 Mean fie1d dynamo 17 MHD equations 38,92 MHD turbu1ence 91 Minkowski spacetime 134 Mo1ecu1ar c10uds 6,151,153,192,207,279,280 Molecular hydrogen formation 6,186 Mo1ecule formation 196 Moment formalism 241 Monte Car10 simulations 185,187 Navier-Stokes equation 126 Neutron stars 8,44,51,59,117,130,142,247,273,283 NGC ,284 NGC ,267,283 NGC Nonlinear dynamo 19,24 Numerical simulations 7,72,145,203,207,224,225 Pair production 262 Partic1e acce1eration 4 Partic1e injection function 136 Partic1e radiation 67,115,261 Period gap 107 Phase space reconstruction 268
5 293 Plasma dynamics 72 Plasma frequency 115 Pleiades 13 Polarization 72,110,191 Polars 4,107 Poloidal magnetic fields 15,17,75,76,156,234 Polymers 188 Poynting flux 5,72,81,141 Poynting flux energy 86,87 Protogalactic halos 7 Protogalaxies 6,194 Protosolar nebula 4 Protostars 159,161,207,218 Protostellar jets 122,207,209 Protostellar systems 1,6,59,167,281,283 Proudman-Taylor theorem 17,25 Pseudo-Newtonian potential 275 Pulsar equation 121 Pulsars 5,8,137,223,247,281,285 Radiation moments 8,214 Radiation pressure 91,96,274 Radiation torus 257 Radiative cooling 185,274 Radio jets 7,233 Radio lobes 7,233 Radio loud quasars 192 Radio structures 224 Rapidly rotating objects 5,129 Rayleigh-Jeans approximation 113 Rayleigh-Taylor instability 32,281 Ray1eigh-Taylor-Parker instability 152 Relativistic Lorentz force 137 Relativistic Mach number 133 Relativistic MHD 129,132 Relativistic plasmas 8,247 Relativistic radiative transfer 241 Relativistic Vlasov equation 8 Relativistic winds 118 Reynolds number 46 Rho Ophiuchi 179 Roche lobe 8,51,55,107,130,274,276 Rossby-Haurwitz waves 40 Rossby number 13 Rossby wave speed 2 Rotation measure 192 Schwarzschild radius 44,130 Schwarzschild spacetime 242 seo X-1 117,286,287
6 294 Seyfert galaxies 267 Shocks 5,59,61,192,194,204,226,227,228,230,231,280 Shot-gun models 284 Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics 145 Solar activity 11,12 Solar angular velocity 2,15,16 Solar convection zone 31,91 Solar cycle 31 Solar differential rotation 14,24,41 Solar dynamo 281 Solar flares 258 Solar radio bursts 115 Solar-Stellar Connection 11 Solar wind 225,285 Spinars 10,118,283,285 Spinning streamers 179,180 Spiral galaxies 191 Spread parameter 250 SS ,117,123,224,285 Star formation 151,159,161,179,188,200,207,234,279 Starpatches 14 Starspots 14 Stellar activity 1,11,12 Stellar cyc1es 24 Stellar dynamo 11,23 Stellar flares 3 Stellar formation 223 Stellar rotation rate 25 Stellar winds 8,201,247 Subcritical clouds 152 Sunspots 12,31 Super-Alfvenic winds 6,173 Supercritical clouds 152 Super-Eddington accretion 8 Super-Eddington rate 274 Superluminal motions 129,142,224,229,284 Supermassive black holes 8,71,73,255,273,283 Supermassive rotators 5,130,131,142 Supernova 1987A 122 Supernova shell 151 Supersonic outflows 224 SynChrotron emission 72,114 Synchrotron particle acceleration 284,286 SynChrotron radiation 230,233,255,260,261 Thermal timescale 49 Thick disks 8,52 Thin disks 3,8,46,47,73,93,273 Three-D simulations 147 Tidal effects 51
7 295 Time-dependent disks 49 T o r o magnetic i d a ~ f i e ~ 2,7,15,17,31,75,76,130,156 d s T Tauri stars 13,71,161,165,207,281 T u r b u diffusivity ~ e n t ,257,280 U n i p o o~ uatr f ~ o w s UV f ~ u x viscous heating 274 Viscous 49 system 247 t i m e s c a ~ e V ~ a s o v - M a x w e ~ ~ White dwarfs 4,44,51,55,99,107,115,130,273,280 Wind theory 224 x-ray binaries 130,273,280 X-ray emission 51,110,223 X-ray f ~ u8,267 x X-ray sources 1 Younq S t e ~ Objects ~ a r 130,165,175,208 Zeeman s p ~ i t13,111,125,154 t i n g ZEUS code 6,204,212 3C C
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