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外介质对磁射流的准直和约束

Collimation and confinement of magnetic jets by external media

Amir Levinson, Mitchell C. Begelman

摘要:

我们研究了高度磁化的射流与外部介质相互作用的结果形成的周围茧的准直。我们表明,在射流被茧很好地限制的区域,电流驱动的不稳定性应在短于射流头部膨胀时间的时间尺度上发展。我们推测,这些不稳定性会引起完全的磁场破坏,从而射流经历了从高到低的西格玛以上的准直区的过渡。利用这一假设,我们建立了一个自洽模型的射流茧系统在任意密度分布的环境介质中的演化。我们将该模型应用于长GRB中的喷流爆发,并表明喷流在祖星的包络内是高度准直的,并且在爆发后很可能保持封闭。我们推测,这种强约束可能提供了一个通道的磁场转换在伽玛暴外流,从而产生的热,低西格玛喷流部分是在许多爆发中观察到的光球发射源。

英文摘要:

We study the collimation of a highly magnetized jet by a surrounding cocoon that forms as a result of the interaction of the jet with the external medium. We show that in regions where the jet is well confined by the cocoon, current-driven instabilities should develop over timescales shorter than the expansion time of the jet's head. We speculate that these instabilities would give rise to complete magnetic field destruction, whereby the jet undergoes a transition from high-to-low sigma above the collimation zone. Using this assumption, we construct a self-consistent model for the evolution of the jet-cocoon system in an ambient medium of arbitrary density profile. We apply the model to jet breakout in long GRBs, and show that the jet is highly collimated inside the envelope of the progenitor star, and is likely to remain confined well after breakout. We speculate that this strong confinement may provide a channel for magnetic field conversion in GRB outflows, whereby the hot, low-sigma jet section thereby produced is the source of the photospheric emission observed in many bursts.

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