QUASI-STATIC MODEL OF COLLIMATED JETS AND RADIO LOBES. I. ACCRETION DISK AND JETS

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 789; no. 2; pp. 144 - 12
• Main Authors: Colgate, Stirling A., Fowler, T. Kenneth, Li, Hui, Pino, Jesse
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 10.07.2014
• Subjects: ACCRETION DISKS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLES; Conservation; COSMIC RADIATION; EQUATIONS; GALAXIES; GALAXY NUCLEI; Jets; Lobes; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MASS; Mathematical models; Radio; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS

This is the first of a series of papers showing that when an efficient dynamo can be maintained by accretion disks around supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei, it can lead to the formation of a powerful, magnetic helix that could explain both the observed radio jet/lobe structures on v...