Accretion-Ejection Instability in magnetized disks: Feeding the corona with Alfvén waves

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20021135zbMATH Open1040.76023arXivastro-ph/0208120OpenAlexW2023006348WikidataQ63411402 ScholiaQ63411402MaRDI QIDQ4707263FDOQ4707263

Authors: M. Tagger, Peggy Varnière 

Publication date: 2002

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a detailed calculation of the mechanism by which the Accretion-Ejection Instability can extract accretion energy and angular momentum from a magnetized disk, and redirect them to its corona. In a disk threaded by a poloidal magnetic field of the order of equipartition with the gas pressure, the instability is composed of a spiral wave (analogous to galactic ones) and a Rossby vortex. The mechanism detailed here describes how the vortex, twisting the footpoints of field lines threading the disk, generates Alfven waves propagating to the corona. We find that this is a very efficient mechanism, providing to the corona (where it could feed a jet or a wind) a substantial fraction of the accretion energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208120

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zbMATH Keywords

angular momentumspiral waveaccretion energyRossby vortex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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