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This chapter discusses the following: the braking of axisymmetric systems; wind theory; the structure of the poloidal field; a simple field model; the rate of braking; a digression on micro-physics; magnetic braking of the oblique rotator; winds driven by Alfvén waves; the solar wind revisited; and radiation-driven winds from hot early-type stars.
Keywords: axisymmetric systems; wind theory; poloidal field; oblique rotator; Alfvén waves; solar wind
Chapter. 19447 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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