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Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.3304h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #33.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.706
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The relativistic jets associated with blazar emission from radio through TeV gamma-rays are thought to be accelerated and collimated by strong helically twisted magnetic fields with footpoints threading the black hole ergosphere and the surrounding accretion disk. The resulting magnetically dominated jet is current-driven (CD) unstable. In a resistive system instability may lead to magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration to the high energies required by the observed emission, and also to the observed kinetically dominated jets far from the central engine. We have investigated the temporal development of current-driven kink instability in magnetically dominated relativistic jets via 3D RMHD simulations. In this investigation a static force-free equilibrium helical magnetic configuration is considered in order to study the influence of the initial configuration on the linear and nonlinear evolution of the instability. We find that the initial configuration is strongly distorted but not disrupted by the CD kink instability. The linear growth and nonlinear evolution of the CD kink instability depends moderately on the radial density profile and strongly on the magnetic pitch profile. Kink amplitude growth in the nonlinear regime for decreasing magnetic pitch leads to a slender helically twisted column wrapped by magnetic field. On the other hand, kink amplitude growth in the nonlinear regime nearly ceases for increasing magnetic pitch. We also present preliminary results showing the effect of velocity shear on the spatial and temporal development of the CD kink instability.
Hardee Philip E.
Lyubarsky Yuri
Mizuno Yosuke
Nishikawa Ken
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