LAUSR

Aims. Planet forming discs are believed to be very weakly turbulent in the regions outside of 1 AU. For this reason, it is now believed that magnetised winds could be the dominant mechanism driving accretion in these systems. However, there is today no self-consistent way to describe discs subject to a magnetised wind, in a way similar to the α disc model. In this article, I explore in a systematic way the parameter space of wind-driven protoplanetary discs and present scaling laws which can be used in reduced models à la α disc. Methods. I compute a series of self-similar wind solutions, assuming the disc is dominated by ambipolar and Ohmic diffusions. These solution are obtained by looking for stationary solutions in the finite-volume code PLUTO using a relaxation method and continuation. Results. Self similar solutions are obtained for values of plasma β ranging from 102 to 108, for several Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion strengths. Mass accretions rates of the order of 10−8 M /yr are obtained for poloidal field strength β = O(104) or equivalently 1 mG at 10 AU. In addition, the ejection efficiency is always close to 1, implying that wind mass loss rate can be larger than the inner mass accretion rate if the wind-emitting region is large. The resulting magnetic lever arms are typically lower than 2, possibly reaching 1.5 in weakest field cases. Remarkably, the mean transport properties (accretion rate, mass loss rate) depend mostly on the field strength and much less on the disc diffusivities or surface density. The disc internal structure is nevertheless strongly affected by Ohmic resistivity, strongly resistive discs being subject to accretion at the surface while ambipolar only models lead to mid-plane accretion. Finally, I provide a complete set of scaling laws and semi-analytical wind solutions, which can be used to fit and interpret observations. Conclusions. Magnetised winds are unavoidable in protoplanetary discs as soon as they are embedded in an ambient poloidal magnetic field. Very detailed disc microphysics are not always needed to describe them, and simplified models such as self-similar solutions manage to capture most of the physics seen in full 3D simulations. The remaining difficulty to get a complete theory of wind-driven accretion lies in the transport of the large scale field, which remains poorly constrained and not well understood.