Magnetic Production of Extragalactic Jets
Abstract
Relativistic jets are formed by plasma injected into the rapidly rotating magnetosphere of accretion disks. The accretion disk generates a dipolar or a quadrupolar magnetosphere which also immerses the black hole. Self-consistent solutions for the structure of this magnetosphere based on the Grad-Schlueter-Shafranov equation for the poloidal magnetic flux are presented. The resulting supermagnetosonic jets consist of a nested family of magnetic surfaces filled with normal plasma flowing along the rotational axis of the central object.
- Publication:
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Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990IAUS..140..413C
- Keywords:
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- Accretion Disks;
- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Plasma Jets;
- Stellar Magnetospheres;
- Stellar Rotation;
- Poloidal Flux;
- Relativistic Plasmas;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Astrophysics