Chondrule Formation and Protoplanetary Disk Heating by Current Sheets in Non-Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

M. K. Ryan Joung, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Denton S. Ebel

We study magnetic field steepening due to ambipolar diffusion (Brandenburg & Zweibel 1994) in protoplanetary disk environments and draw the following conclusions. Current sheets ar…