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General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Jet Formation and Large-Scale Propagation from Black Hole Accretion Systems | | Jonathan C. McKinney
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2 Mar 2006 | | Abstract: | The formation and large-scale propagation of Poynting-dominated jets produced by accreting, rapidly rotating black hole systems are studied by numerically integrating the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations of motion to follow the self-consistent interaction between accretion disks and black holes. This study extends previous similar work by studying jets till $tapprox 10^4GM/c^3$ out to $rapprox 10^4GM/c^2$, by which the jet is super- fast magnetosonic and moves at a lab-frame bulk Lorentz factor of $Gammasim 10$ with a maximum terminal Lorentz factor of $Gamma_inftylesssim 10^3$. The radial structure of the Poynting-dominated jet is piece-wise self-similar, and fits to flow quantities along the field line are provided. Beyond the alf surface at $rsim 10$--$100GM/c^2$, the jet becomes marginally unstable to (at least) current-driven instabilities. Such instabilities drive shocks in the jet that limit the efficiency of magnetic acceleration and collimation. These instabilities also induce jet substructure with $3lesssimGammalesssim 15$. The jet is shown to only marginally satisfy the necessary and sufficient conditions for kink instability, so this may explain how astrophysical jets can extend to large distances without completely disrupting. At large distance, the jet angular structure is Gaussian-like (or uniform within the core with sharp exponential wings) with a half-opening angle of $approx 5^circ$ and there is an extended component out to $approx 27^circ$. Unlike in some hydrodynamic simulations, the environment is found to play a negligible role in jet structure, acceleration, and collimation as long as the ambient pressure of the surrounding medium is small compared to the magnetic pressure in the jet. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0603045 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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