Magnetic field transport from AGN cores to jets, lobes, and the IGM
Abstract
I describe various stages of energy flow along an extragalactic jet, which subsequently evolves into an extended lobe which is visible in radio and X-rays. The sizes of the lobes vary from kpc scales to several megaparsec, so that the largest lobes are clearly injecting back hole energy into the IGM on scales comparable with a galaxy-galaxy separation. This is sometimes loosely referred to as Black hole-IGM "feedback". My talk begins with a well-formed jet, and avoids the complex and unclarified physics at less than a few Schwarzschild radii that cause the initial launching the jet.
- Publication:
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Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to Stars and Galaxies
- Pub Date:
- April 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921309031172
- Bibcode:
- 2009IAUS..259..499K
- Keywords:
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- Galaxies: jets;
- galaxies: active;
- galaxies: magnetic fields;
- intergalactic medium