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Dynamical and Microphysical Constraints on Accreting Magnetospheric Clouds in Active Galactic Nuclei
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The range of microphysical and dynamical timescales at the centres of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is sufficiently wide to permit multiphase structure. In particular, very dense, cool clouds can coexist with a hot, magnetically-dominated plasma. The strong dynamical forces in this central magnetosphere can give rise to clouds so small that microphysical processes determine whether they can survive for long enough to produce potentially observable spectral signatures due to thermal reprocessing. Specific physical constraints on the scale sizes of such reprocessing clouds are examined. It is found that there exists a parameter subspace in the extreme high density regime for which gas can sustain cool temperatures whilst maintaining pressure equilibrium with the ambient magnetosphere.
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- Part 3. Fundamental Physical Processes
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 126 - 130
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997