| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 61, 2013
The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields
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| Article Number | 01001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Jet Formation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136101001 | |
| Published online | 09 December 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136101001
The Phoenix Fire Model for Jet Creation: The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Production and Propagation of Relativistic Jets
California Institute of Technology
a e-mail: dlm@jpl.nasa.gov
Published online: 9 December 2013
Using recent observational and theoretical results, I outline the latest ideas on how relativistic jets are produced by rotating magnetic fields, along with the physical processes that result in the FR I/II dichotomy. Simply put, at the end of the acceleration and collimation phase the now super-magnetosonic jet (the “Phoenix”) passes through a master recollimation shock (the “fire”) and is reborn as a new and more stable collimated MHD flow. Depending on whether the magnetic dissipation in the shock is negligible or substantial, the final jet will be either trans-magnetosonic (a BL Lac/FR I source) or super-(magneto)sonic with a weak magnetic field (an FSRQ/FR II source). Predictions are made about the behavior of additional observational and theoretical studies that can test this hypothesis more completely.
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