Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aas...19311902c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #119.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1426
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The frequent star-disk collisions in the accretion disk forming the massive black hole of galaxies is an efficient, robust mechanism for generating the alpha -helicity in the alpha -Omega dynamo. In the rotating frame of the disk, these collisions result in axially directed, expanding plumes which "un-twist" due to their increased moment of inertia. We have demonstrated this flow field and its feasibility in the laboratory in preparation for a dynamo experiment using liquid sodium. The near-infinite number of rotations of the inner accretion disk and hence, amplification, ensures that this dynamo will saturate at the maximum accretion disk stress, where Bmax ~ 50 kG, corresponding to a luminosity, L ~ 10(46) ergs/s. The magnetic flux expelled as a collimated Poynting flux is sufficient to explain the magnetic flux of the galaxy as well as that of galactic clusters. The dissipation of a fraction of this magnetic energy is the likely source of the AGN/quasar phenomena.
Beckley Howard
Colgate Stirling
Finn Justin
Li Handong
Pariev Vladimir
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