Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995apj...439l..39u&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 439, no. 2, p. L39-L42
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
96
Accretion Disks, Astronomical Models, Computerized Simulation, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Interstellar Matter, Magnetohydrodynamics, Mathematical Models, Plasma Jets, Coronas, Kepler Laws, Plasma Pinch, Poloidal Flux, Pressure Gradients, Toroidal Plasmas
Scientific paper
Magnetohydrodynamic simulations have been made of the formation of outflows from a Keplerian disk threaded by a magnetic field. The disk is treated as a boundary condition, where matter is ejected with Keplerian azimuthal speed and poloidal speed less than the slow magnetosonic velocity, and where boundary conditions on the magnetic field correspond to a highly conducting disk. Initially, the space above the disk, the corona, is filled with high specific entropy plasma in thermal equilibrium in the gravitational potential of the central object. The initial magnetic field is poloidal and is represented by a superposition of monopoles located below the plane of the disk. The rotation of the disk twists the initial poloidal magnetic field, and this twist propagates into the corona pushing and collimating matter into jetlike outflow in a cylindrical region. Matter outflowing from the disk flows and accelerates in the z-direction owing to both the magnetic and pressure gradient forces. The flow accelerates through the slow magnetosonic and Alfven surfaces and at larger distances through the fast magnetosonic surface. The flow velocity of the jet is approximately parallel to the z-axis, and the collimation results from the pinching force of the toroidal magnetic field. For a nonrotating disk no collimation is observed.
Chechetkin V. M.
Koldoba Alexander V.
Lovelace Richard V. E.
Romanova Marina M.
Ustyugova Galina V.
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