Magneto-Centrifugal Launching of Jets from Accretion Disks. I: Cold Axisymmetric Flows

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1999-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902200v2

Astrophys.J. 526 (1999) 631

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, including 10 figures and 2 tables. To appear in ApJ (Dec 1999). Revised version clarifies the abstract, section 3.2.

Scientific paper

10.1086/308023

The magneto-centrifugal model for jet formation is studied by time-dependent simulations reaching steady state in a cold gas with negligible fluid pressure, in an axisymmetric geometry, using a modification of the Zeus3D code adapted to parallel computers. The number of boundary conditions imposed at the coronal base takes into account the existence of the fast and Alfvenic critical surfaces, avoiding over-determination of the flow. The size and shape of the computational box is chosen to include these critical surfaces, reducing the influence of the outer boundary conditions. As there is a region, near the origin, where the inclination of field lines to the axis is too small to drive a centrifugal wind, we inject a thin, axial jet, expected to form electromagnetically near black holes. Acceleration and collimation appear for wide generic conditions. A reference run is shown in detail, with a wind leaving the computational volume in the axial direction with a poloidal velocity equal to 4 times the poloidal Alfven speed, collimated inside 11 degrees. Finally, the critical surfaces, fieldlines, thrust, energy, torque and mass discharge of the outgoing wind are shown for simulations with various profiles of mass and magnetic flux at the base of the corona.

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