Bipolar Jets Launched by a Mean-field Accretion Disk Dynamo

2018 ◽  
Vol 855 (2) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fendt ◽  
Dennis Gaßmann
2014 ◽  
Vol 796 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniss Stepanovs ◽  
Christian Fendt ◽  
Somayeh Sheikhnezami
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2000 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 255-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Colgate ◽  
H. Li

Recent rotation-measure observations of a dozen or so galaxyclusters have revealed a surprisingly large number of magnetic fields whose estimated energy and flux are, on average, ~ 1058 ergs and ~ 1041 G cm2, respectively. These quantities are so much larger than any coherent sums of individual galaxies within the cluster that an efficient galactic dynamo is required. We associate these fields with single AGNs within the cluster and, therefore, with all galaxies during their AGN phase. Only the central, massive black hole (BH) has the necessary binding energy, ~ 1061 ergs. Only the accretion disk during the BH formation has the winding number, ~ 1011 turns, necessary to make the gain and magnetic flux. We present a model of a BH accretion-disk dynamo that might create these magnetic fields, where the helicity of the α-Ω dynamo is driven by star-disk collisions. The back reaction of the saturated dynamo forms a force-free field helix that carries the energy and flux of the dynamo and redistributes them within the clusters.


2015 ◽  
Vol 809 (2) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell C. Begelman ◽  
Philip J. Armitage ◽  
Christopher S. Reynolds

2021 ◽  
Vol 911 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Christos Vourellis ◽  
Christian Fendt

1988 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
K. Masai ◽  
S. Hayakawa ◽  
F. Nagase

AbstractEmission mechanisms of the iron Kα-lines in X-ray binaries are discussed in relation with the characteristic temperature Txof continuum radiation thereof. The 6.7 keV line is ascribed to radiative recombination followed by cascades in a corona of ∼ 100 eV formed above the accretion disk. This mechanism is attained for Tx≲ 10 keV as observed for low mass X-ray binaries. The 6.4 keV line observed for binary X-ray pulsars with Tx> 10 keV is likely due to fluorescence outside the He II ionization front.


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