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The Structure of Relativistic MHD Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Stefan Appl  and
Max Camenzind
Stefan Appl
Affiliation:
Landessternwarte Königstuhl, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Max Camenzind
Affiliation:
Landessternwarte Königstuhl, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

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An analytic model for a stationary force-free relativistic magnetized jet is presented. In those models a poloidal current provides the tension that balances the internal pressure. Our ignorance of the detailed conditions in the collimation zone is accounted for by specifying the current distribution as an (essentially free) function of the flux surfaces. The asymptotically cylindrical Grad-Schlüter-Shafranov (GSS) equation is solved for a nonlinear current distribution, I(Ψ) = c(1 – exp(−bΨ)) which covers both diffuse (b 《 1) and sharp (b 》 1) pinches, and weak (small c) and strong (large c) currents.

Type
Poster Contributions: Emission Processes
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 341 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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