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具有螺旋磁场的河外喷流:相对论性MHD模拟

Extragalactic jets with helical magnetic fields: relativistic MHD simulations

R. Keppens, Z. Meliani, B. van der Holst, F. Casse

摘要:

河外喷流被认为是动力学上重要的、有组织的磁场的港湾,这些磁场可能有助于相对论性喷流的准直。在这里,我们探索网格自适应,高分辨率的数值模拟的AGN喷流的形态遍布螺旋场和流动拓扑结构。我们集中在形态特征的弓形激波和射流束后面的马赫盘,为各种射流洛伦兹因子和磁场螺旋。研究了螺旋磁场对射流束在过密外部介质中传输的影响。我们使用的AMRVAC代码,采用一种新的混合块为基础的AMR策略,计算理想的等离子体动力学在狭义相对论。束流磁场的螺旋度被有效地沿束流向下传输,在对角内部交叉激波之间的压缩区显示出更强的环向场区域。与被茧包围的等效低相对论性射流相比,高速射流在主要由环向场填充的涡流回流中仅表现出局部的强环向场区域。我们发现一个更极向,直场层,压缩之间的射流束和回流的证据。该层减小了回流对射流束的不稳定影响。在所有情况下,射流束包含丰富的交叉激波图案,部分动能通过交叉激波图案转移。对于这里考虑的高速参考射流,只有在超过${\cal O}(100 R_j)$的距离之外才会发生显著的射流减速,因为轴向流可以在下游重新加速到内部交叉激波。这种再加速是由磁场辅助的,因为磁场压缩了内部的激波,使气流收缩。

英文摘要:

Extragalactic jets are inferred to harbor dynamically important, organized magnetic fields which presumably aid in the collimation of the relativistic jet flows. We here explore by means of grid-adaptive, high resolution numerical simulations the morphology of AGN jets pervaded by helical field and flow topologies. We concentrate on morphological features of the bow shock and the jet beam behind the Mach disk, for various jet Lorentz factors and magnetic field helicities. We investigate the influence of helical magnetic fields on jet beam propagation in overdense external medium. We use the AMRVAC code, employing a novel hybrid block-based AMR strategy, to compute ideal plasma dynamics in special relativity. The helicity of the beam magnetic field is effectively transported down the beam, with compression zones in between diagonal internal cross-shocks showing stronger toroidal field regions. In comparison with equivalent low-relativistic jets which get surrounded by cocoons with vortical backflows filled by mainly toroidal field, the high speed jets demonstrate only localized, strong toroidal field zones within the backflow vortical structures. We find evidence for a more poloidal, straight field layer, compressed between jet beam and backflows. This layer decreases the destabilizing influence of the backflow on the jet beam. In all cases, the jet beam contains rich cross-shock patterns, across which part of the kinetic energy gets transferred. For the high speed reference jet considered here, significant jet deceleration only occurs beyond distances exceeding ${\cal O}(100 R_j)$, as the axial flow can reaccelerate downstream to the internal cross-shocks. This reacceleration is magnetically aided, due to field compression across the internal shocks which pinch the flow.

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