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Dissipation of Turbulent Magnetic Fields in Accreting Black Holes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Calculations of the spectrum resulting from accretion onto a massive black hole often make use of the “equipartition assumption” in order to estimate the magnetic field intensity. Thus, the mechanism for the dissipation of the magnetic field and the resulting dynamical influence on the gas have not been treated quantitatively, nor self-consistently. Here, we introduce an alternative approach for modelling the magnetic field dissipation from basic principles, using current ideas about turbulent fields and tearing mode instabilities.
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- Part 15. Poster Papers
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 749 - 750
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997
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