Hostname: page-component-669899f699-rg895 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-03T03:56:56.316Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Is the Jet in M87 Magnetically Confined?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Philip E. Hardee
Philip E. Hardee*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Calculations of the minimum pressure in the M87 jet show that the jet pressure is an order of magnitude in excess of the thermal pressure in the interstellar medium calculated from the X-ray emission. The continuous energy input required to produce the jet emission is incompatible with a freely expanding jet. On the other hand, the uniform jet expansion, the jet emission and the jet polarization can be explained if the jet is self-confined by j x B forces.

Type
Session VI
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 107: Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities , 1985 , pp. 439 - 443
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

References

Begelman, M.C. 1982, in IAU Symposium 97, Extragalactic Radio Sources, ed. Heeschen, D.S. and Wade, CM. (Dordrecht: Reidel).Google Scholar
Benford, G. 1981, Ap. J., 247, 792.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Biretta, J.A., Owen, F.N. and Hardee, P.E. 1983, Ap. J. Letters, in press.Google Scholar
Blandford, R.D. and Payne, D.G. 1982, MNRAS, 199, 883.Google Scholar
Burns, J.O., Basart, J.P. and DeYoung, D. 1983, preprint.Google Scholar
Chan, K.L. and Henriksen, R.N. 1980, Ap. J., 241, 534.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohn, J. 1983, Ap. J., 269, 500.Google Scholar
Eilek, J.A. 1982, Ap. J., 254, 472.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ferrari, A. 1985, in IAU Symposium 107, Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics, ed. Kundu, M. and Holman, G. (Dordrecht: Reidel)(this volume).Google Scholar
Hardee, P.E. 1983, Ap. J., 269, 94.Google Scholar
Laing, R.A. 1981, Ap. J., 248, 87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Landau, L.D. and Lifschitz, E.M. 1959, Fluid Mechanics (New York: Pergamon).Google Scholar
Lea, S.M., Mushotzky, R.F. and Holt, S.S. 1982, Ap. J., 261, 42.Google Scholar
Potash, R.I. and Wardle, J.F.C. 1980, Ap. J., 239, 42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar