MHD disc winds can reproduce fast disc dispersal and the correlation between accretion rate and disc mass in Lupus

ABSTRACT The final architecture of planetary systems depends on the extraction of angular momentum and mass-loss processes of the discs in which they form. Theoretical studies proposed that magnetohydrodynamic winds launched from the discs (MHD disc winds) could govern accretion and disc dispersal....

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Veröffentlicht in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters 2022-05, Vol.512 (1), p.L74-L79
Hauptverfasser: Tabone, B, Rosotti, G P, Lodato, G, Armitage, P J, Cridland, A J, van Dishoeck, E F
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT The final architecture of planetary systems depends on the extraction of angular momentum and mass-loss processes of the discs in which they form. Theoretical studies proposed that magnetohydrodynamic winds launched from the discs (MHD disc winds) could govern accretion and disc dispersal. In this work, we revisit the observed disc demographics in the framework of MHD disc winds, combining analytical solutions of disc evolution and a disc population synthesis approach. We show that MHD disc winds alone can account for both disc dispersal and accretion properties. The decline of disc fraction over time is reproduced by assuming that the initial accretion time-scale (a generalization of the viscous time-scale) varies from disc to disc and that the decline of the magnetic field strength is slower than that of the gas. The correlation between accretion rate and disc mass, and the dispersion of the data around the mean trend as observed in Lupus, is then naturally reproduced. The model also accounts for the rapidity of the disc dispersal. This paves the way for planet formation models in the paradigm of wind-driven accretion.
ISSN:1745-3925
1745-3933
DOI:10.1093/mnrasl/slab124