Physics
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Jan 2001
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Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #205, held 15-18 August 2000 at
Physics
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Ground and space very long baseline interferometry imaging observations have shown that collimated, relativistic flow at speeds up to a Lorentz factor of 10 (0.995c) and greater are possible in radio galaxies and quasars. It is generally believed that such flow velocities indicate that jet acceleration and collimation occurs in the relativistic environment of a supermassive black hole. Recently, several groups around the world have begun to test theories of jet formation using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of magnetized gas flow around black holes. While it is now generally accepted that jets, including relativistic ones, are accelerated and collimated by magnetized accretion disks, the Lorentz factors that have been achieved in these simulations still do not approach those suggested by the VLBI observations unless the ejected material is essentially unbound very close to the disk by a strong magnetic field (the so-called magnetic switch). In this poster I will discuss some recent simulations of MHD jet formation, with an emphasis on producing highly relativistic outflows and on the role that black hole angular momentum might play. Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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