The astrophysical plasma gun

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Other literature type 01 Jan 1996Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Authors: John Contopoulos;

doi: 10.1007/bfb0102598

The astrophysical plasma gun

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In direct analogy to the focusing stage of a typical laboratory magnetized coaxial plasma gun, we suggest that the explosive release of the toroidal magnetic field generated in the interior of a differentially rotating accretion disk around a central black hole, might account naturally for the sequences of fast and slow moving blobs observed in galactic and extragalactic jets.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
Goddard Space Flight Center
United States

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