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Interaction of Gravitationally Contracting Gas Having Angular Momentum with Magnetic Field, and the Acceleration and Collimation of Astrophysical Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Y. Uchida ,
M. Nakamura ,
T. Miyagoshi ,
T. Kobayashi ,
T. Mukawa  and
S. Hirose
Y. Uchida
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Science University of Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
M. Nakamura
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Science University of Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
T. Miyagoshi
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Science University of Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
T. Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Science University of Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
T. Mukawa
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Science University of Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
S. Hirose
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Science University of Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan

Abstract

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In the present paper, we stress the importance of the magnetic field in the problem of acceleration and collimation of astrophysical jets, and discuss our proposed generic picture for such “central gravitator + jets + lobes” systems and inherent interpretations of the various observational characteristics of such systems: Mechanisms are proposed for (1) the enhanced liberation of gravitational energy at the central object, (2) the transfer of a part of the liberated energy along the large-scale magnetic field by large-amplitude, torsional Alfvén wave trains that form collimated jets (we call this a sweeping pinch process), (3) the dumping of the transferred energy at the end of the jets when they impinge on the denser region outside the border of the “cavity” from which the mass contracted to the central condensation (central gravitator + accretion disk, as well as the larger-scale condensation surrounding them), and (4) the formation of wiggled jets and lobes as helical kinks and the tucked-up magnetic field produced in the sweeping pinch process, respectively.

Type
Part I: Talks
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 195: Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms , 2000 , pp. 213 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

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