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天体物理学吸积流中增强的MHD输送:turbulence,风和喷流

Enhanced MHD transport in astrophysical accretion flows: turbulence, winds and jets

Peter B. Dobbie, Zdenka Kuncic, Geoffrey V. Bicknell, Raquel Salmeron

摘要:

天体物理吸积可以说是宇宙中最普遍的物理过程;它发生在单个恒星的诞生和死亡期间,并在整个星系的演化中起着关键作用。特别是在黑洞上的吸积,也是自然界中已知的最有效的机制,将高达40%的吸积静止质量能量转化为壮观的形式,如高能(X射线和伽马射线)发射和相对论喷流。虽然磁场被认为是最终负责这些现象,我们的微观物理的吸积流以及大规模的MHD外流的MHD湍流的理解仍然远远没有完成。我们提出了一个新的理论模型的天体物理磁盘吸积,认为增强垂直传输的动量和能量的MHD风和喷流,以及运输造成的MHD湍流。我们还描述了新的全球性的,三维模拟,我们目前正在开发的非理想的MHD效应可以解释如何小规模的,湍流场(产生的磁旋转不稳定性- MRI)可能会演变成大规模的,有序的领域,产生磁化电晕和/或射流的最高能量的现象必然起源的程度。

英文摘要:

Astrophysical accretion is arguably the most prevalent physical process in the Universe; it occurs during the birth and death of individual stars and plays a pivotal role in the evolution of entire galaxies. Accretion onto a black hole, in particular, is also the most efficient mechanism known in nature, converting up to 40% of accreting rest mass energy into spectacular forms such as high-energy (X-ray and gamma-ray) emission and relativistic jets. Whilst magnetic fields are thought to be ultimately responsible for these phenomena, our understanding of the microphysics of MHD turbulence in accretion flows as well as large-scale MHD outflows remains far from complete. We present a new theoretical model for astrophysical disk accretion which considers enhanced vertical transport of momentum and energy by MHD winds and jets, as well as transport resulting from MHD turbulence. We also describe new global, 3D simulations that we are currently developing to investigate the extent to which non-ideal MHD effects may explain how small-scale, turbulent fields (generated by the magnetorotational instability -- MRI) might evolve into large-scale, ordered fields that produce a magnetized corona and/or jets where the highest energy phenomena necessarily originate.

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