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超压磁化相对论喷流的内部结构

The internal structure of overpressured, magnetized, relativistic jets

José M. Martí, Manel Perucho, José L. Gómez

摘要:

这项工作提出了第一个表征的内部结构的超压稳定的超快磁声相对论射流与其主导类型的能量。为此目的,相对论磁流体动力学模拟不同的射流模型通过螺旋磁场进行了分析,覆盖了磁声马赫数特定的内能平面的广泛区域。这个平面的优点是,模型占主导地位的不同类型的能量(内能:热喷流;静止质量的能量:动力学为主的喷流;磁能:坡印廷通量为主的喷流)占据分离的区域。所分析的模型也涵盖了广泛的磁化。由内能主导的模型(即,热模型,或坡印廷通量占主导地位的喷流,其磁化强度大于但接近于1),具有丰富的内部结构,其特征在于一系列准静态激波,并呈现出流动洛伦兹因子(和内能密度)的最大变化。相反,在动力学主导的模型中,没有太多的内能或磁能被转换为动能,并且喷流没有特征,流动洛伦兹因子变化很小。穿过射流的显著环形磁场的存在在内能密度的横向分布中产生大的梯度。具有高磁化强度(>10)的坡印廷通量主导模型在磁箍缩模式下容易不稳定,这限制了秒差距尺度活动星系核喷流的预期磁化强度{和/或限制了它们的磁场配置}。

英文摘要:

This work presents the first characterization of the internal structure of overpressured steady superfast magnetosonic relativistic jets in connection with their dominant type of energy. To this aim, relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of different jet models threaded by a helical magnetic field have been analyzed covering a wide region in the magnetosonic Mach number - specific internal energy plane. The merit of this plane is that models dominated by different types of energy (internal energy: hot jets; rest-mass energy: kinetically dominated jets; magnetic energy: Poynting-flux dominated jets) occupy well separated regions. The analyzed models also cover a wide range of magnetizations. Models dominated by the internal energy (i.e., hot models, or Poynting-flux dominated jets with magnetizations larger than but close to 1) have a rich internal structure characterized by a series of recollimation shocks and present the largest variations in the flow Lorentz factor (and internal energy density). Conversely, in kinetically dominated models there is not much internal nor magnetic energy to be converted into kinetic one and the jets are featureless, with small variations in the flow Lorentz factor. The presence of a significant toroidal magnetic field threading the jet produces large gradients in the transversal profile of the internal energy density. Poynting-flux dominated models with high magnetization (>10) are prone to be unstable against magnetic pinch modes, which sets limits to the expected magnetization in parsec-scale AGN jets {and/or constrains their magnetic field configuration}.

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