Dynamic and Stagnating Plasma Flow Leading to Magnetic Flux Tube Collimation

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2005-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506221v1

Physics

Plasma Physics

to be published in PRL; color figures on electronic version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.045002

Highly collimated, plasma-filled magnetic flux tubes are frequently observed on galactic, stellar and laboratory scales. We propose that a single, universal magnetohydrodynamic pumping process explains why such collimated, plasma-filled magnetic flux tubes are ubiquitous. Experimental evidence from carefully diagnosed laboratory simulations of astrophysical jets confirms this assertion and is reported here. The magnetohydrodynamic process pumps plasma into a magnetic flux tube and the stagnation of the resulting flow causes this flux tube to become collimated.

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