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| | REGULATION OF THE STELLAR ANGULAR VELOCITY |
 | | These observations suggest that T Tauri stars in accretion disk systems are subjected to a regulation of their angular velocities, countering the tendency to spin up both from accretion of disk material of high specific angular momentum and from readjustments in moment of inertia as they contract toward the main sequence. |
 | | However, this approach does not suggest any natural explanation to regulate the angular velocity of the convective, accreting star, nor is the means for the dynamo to drive the wind identified. |
 | | The MHD calculations exploring the coupling between the disk and the magnetosphere and the subsequent extraction of angular momentum from the star differ significantly (Ghosh and Lamb, 1979; Konigl, 1991; Shu et al., 1994; Cameron and Campbell, 1993; Ghosh, 1995; Clark et al., 1995), but all agree on a few fundamental points. |
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