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The Production of Jets from Magnetized Accretion Disks: Simulation of the Blandford-Payne Mechanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
We have used massively parallel supercomputer simulations to perform an extensive study of a plausible mechanism for producing the jets seen in extragalactic radio sources - acceleration and collimation by coronal magnetic fields in an accretion disk orbiting a central black hole. We find that such disks can propel jets for a wide range of coronal conditions. The terminal jet velocity is a strong function of the magnetic field equatorial component. Acceleration and collimation are produced by a tight azimuthal field coil generated in the corona, rather than by a stiff poloidal field extending to large distances. The jets are pressure-confined when the external medium pressure is high, but magnetically-confined when it is low.
- Type
- Radio Source Modelling and Emission Mechanisms
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 433 - 434
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996