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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Emergence of high peaks in the axial velocity for an ideal magnetohydrodynamic disk configuration
Giovanni Montani1, Nakia Carlevaro
1Physics Department , Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy. giovanni.montani@frascati.enea.it
Abstract:
We study the profile of a thin disk configuration as described by an axisymmetric ideal magnetohydrodynamics steady equilibrium. We consider the disk like a differentially rotating system dominated by the Keplerian term, but allowing for a nonzero radial and vertical matter flux. As a result, the steady state allows for the existence of local peaks for the vertical velocity of the plasma particles, though it prevents the radial matter accretion rate. This ideal magnetohydrodynamics scheme is therefore unable to solve the angular momentum-transport problem, but we suggest that it provides a mechanism for the generation of matter-jet seeds.
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