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8.10. Three-dimensional global MHD simulations of jet formation in active galactic nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

R. Matsumoto
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chiba University 1-33 Yayoi-Cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263, Japan
K. Shibata
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan

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Magnetically driven jets from accretion disks are considered to be the most promising models of astrophysical jets. Uchida & Shibata (1985) and Shibata & Uchida (1986) first carried out two-dimensional nonlinear MHD simulations of jet formation from a magnetized disk. Matsumoto et al. (1996) applied the Uchida-Shibata model to a gas torus in active galactic nuclei and showed that the surface layer of the torus accretes faster than the equatorial region like an avalanche because magnetic braking most effectively extracts angular momentum from that layer. A magnetized torus subjects to global non-axisymmetric instabilities (Curry & Pudritz 1996) and local magnetorotational instability (Balbus & Hawley 1991). We carried out three-dimensional global MHD simulations to show the non-axisymmetric effects on the torus, avalanche flow and jet formation.

Type
Part II. Nuclear Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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