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Physics of Magnetized Accretion Disks in AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

George Field  and
Robert Rogers
George Field
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics and Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Robert Rogers
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Field and Rogers (1993) proposed that the accretion disks in moderate - L AGN (≲ 1044 erg sec−1) are dominated by magnetic stress rather than gas or radiation pressure. A magnetic field parallel to the disk forms loops above and below it where reconnection accelerates electrons to relativistic energies. The nonthermal radiation observed is the synchrotron emission and inverse-Compton scattering by these electrons.

Type
Poster Contributions: Disks Structure and Emission
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 480 - 481
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

References

Field, G.B. & Rogers, R.D. 1993, ApJ, 403, 94 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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