Enhanced MHD transport in astrophysical accretion flows: turbulence, winds and jets

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2009-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3274v2

Plas. Fus. Res., 4, 017 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

8 pages, 2 figures. Minor revision, published version: Proc 14th International Congress on Plasma Physics, Fukuoka, Japan, Sep

Scientific paper

10.1585/pfr.4.017

Astrophysical accretion is arguably the most prevalent physical process in the Universe; it occurs during the birth and death of individual stars and plays a pivotal role in the evolution of entire galaxies. Accretion onto a black hole, in particular, is also the most efficient mechanism known in nature, converting up to 40% of accreting rest mass energy into spectacular forms such as high-energy (X-ray and gamma-ray) emission and relativistic jets. Whilst magnetic fields are thought to be ultimately responsible for these phenomena, our understanding of the microphysics of MHD turbulence in accretion flows as well as large-scale MHD outflows remains far from complete. We present a new theoretical model for astrophysical disk accretion which considers enhanced vertical transport of momentum and energy by MHD winds and jets, as well as transport resulting from MHD turbulence. We also describe new global, 3D simulations that we are currently developing to investigate the extent to which non-ideal MHD effects may explain how small-scale, turbulent fields (generated by the magnetorotational instability -- MRI) might evolve into large-scale, ordered fields that produce a magnetized corona and/or jets where the highest energy phenomena necessarily originate.

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