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Star formation: Desperately seeking spin

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High angular resolution ALMA observations appear to confirm jets as a solution to the classical angular momentum problem of star formation, but the jury is still out.

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Figure 1: An illustration of the research question under investigation: is angular momentum extracted from the star–disk system by the bipolar jet, thus allowing disk accretion to proceed?

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Coffey, D. Star formation: Desperately seeking spin. Nat Astron 1, 0180 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0180

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