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Número total de Autores: 3
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Afiliação do(s) autor(es): | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Astron IAG USP, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Inst Theoret Phys, D-60438 Frankfurt - Germany
Número total de Afiliações: 2
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Tipo de documento: | Artigo Científico |
Fonte: | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL; v. 824, n. 1 JUN 10 2016. |
Citações Web of Science: | 23 |
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Using the three-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code RAISHIN, we investigated the influence of the radial density profile on the spatial development of the current-driven kink instability along magnetized rotating, relativistic jets. For the purposes of our study, we used a nonperiodic computational box, the jet flow is initially established across the computational grid, and a precessional perturbation at the inlet triggers the growth of the kink instability. We studied light and heavy jets with respect to the environment depending on the density profile. Different angular velocity amplitudes have been also tested. The results show the propagation of a helically kinked structure along the jet and a relatively stable configuration for the lighter jets. The jets appear to be collimated by the magnetic field, and the flow is accelerated owing to conversion of electromagnetic into kinetic energy. We also identify regions of high current density in filamentary current sheets, indicative of magnetic reconnection, which are associated with the kink-unstable regions and correlated with the decrease of the sigma parameter of the flow. We discuss the implications of our findings for Poynting-flux-dominated jets in connection with magnetic reconnection processes. We find that fast magnetic reconnection may be driven by the kink-instability turbulence and govern the transformation of magnetic into kinetic energy, thus providing an efficient way to power and accelerate particles in active galactic nucleus and gamma-ray-burst relativistic jets. (AU) | |
Processo FAPESP: | 13/10559-5 - Investigação de fenômenos de altas energias e plasmas astrofísicos: teoria, simulações numéricas, observações e desenvolvimento de instrumentação para o Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) |
Beneficiário: | Elisabete Maria de Gouveia Dal Pino |
Modalidade de apoio: | Auxílio à Pesquisa - Projetos Especiais |
Processo FAPESP: | 09/54006-4 - Um cluster de computadores para o Departamento de Astronomia do IAG-USP e para o Núcleo de Astrofísica da UNICSUL |
Beneficiário: | Elisabete Maria de Gouveia Dal Pino |
Modalidade de apoio: | Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa Equipamentos Multiusuários |
Processo FAPESP: | 13/09065-8 - Origem e colimação de Jatos de Fontes Compactas e Mecanismos de Aceleração |
Beneficiário: | Chandra Bahadur Singh |
Modalidade de apoio: | Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado |