Formation of relativistic MHD jets: stationary state solutions & numerical simulations Export

@article{citeulike:3680642, abstract = {We discuss numerical results of relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet formation models. We first review some examples of stationary state solutions treating the collimation and acceleration process of relativistic MHD jets. We provide an a posteriori check for the MHD condition in highly magnetized flows, namely the comparison of particle density to Goldreich-Julian density. Using the jet dynamical parameters calculated from the MHD model we show the rest-frame thermal X-ray spectra of the jet, from which we derive the overall spectrum taking into account a variation of Doppler boosting and Doppler shift of emission lines along the outflow. Finally, we present preliminary results of relativistic MHD simulations of jet formation demonstrating the acceleration of a low velocity (0.01c) disk wind to a collimated high velocity (0.8c).}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Fendt, Christian and Memola, Elisabetta}, citeulike-article-id = {3680642}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3430}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.3430}, day = {20}, eprint = {0811.3430}, keywords = {jets, mhd, numerical, relativistic, simulations, solutions, state, stationary}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2008-11-24 10:50:58}, priority = {2}, title = {Formation of relativistic MHD jets: stationary state solutions \& numerical simulations}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3430}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3680642 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3680642 N2 - We discuss numerical results of relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet formation models. We first review some examples of stationary state solutions treating the collimation and acceleration process of relativistic MHD jets. We provide an a posteriori check for the MHD condition in highly magnetized flows, namely the comparison of particle density to Goldreich-Julian density. Using the jet dynamical parameters calculated from the MHD model we show the rest-frame thermal X-ray spectra of the jet, from which we derive the overall spectrum taking into account a variation of Doppler boosting and Doppler shift of emission lines along the outflow. Finally, we present preliminary results of relativistic MHD simulations of jet formation demonstrating the acceleration of a low velocity (0.01c) disk wind to a collimated high velocity (0.8c). TI - Formation of relativistic MHD jets: stationary state solutions & numerical simulations KW - jets KW - mhd KW - numerical KW - relativistic KW - simulations KW - solutions KW - state KW - stationary AU - Fendt, Christian AU - Memola, Elisabetta PY - 2008/Nov/20/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3430 ER -