Influence of self-gravity on the equilibrium structures of magnetized tori
Abstract
We present some results obtained with a toy model developed in Trova et al. 2016 used to study the influence of the self-gravity on the equilibrium configurations of magnetized rotating self-gravitating gaseous tori, in the context of gaseous/dusty tori surrounding supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei. While the central black hole dominates the gravitational field and it remains electrically neutral, the surrounding material has a non-negligible self-gravitational effect on the torus structure. The vertical and radial structures of the torus are influenced by the balance between the gravitational and the magnetic force. By comparison with a previous work without self-gravity (Slany et al. 2016), we show that the conditions of existence of these configurations can change.
- Publication:
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New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131700148X
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..324..253T
- Keywords:
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- gravitation;
- magnetic fields -methods: numerical