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Dissipation of Turbulent Magnetic Fields in Accreting Black Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Victor Kowalenko  and
Fulvio Melia
Victor Kowalenko
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3052, Australia
Fulvio Melia
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Abstract

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Calculations of the spectrum resulting from accretion onto a massive black hole often make use of the “equipartition assumption” in order to estimate the magnetic field intensity. Thus, the mechanism for the dissipation of the magnetic field and the resulting dynamical influence on the gas have not been treated quantitatively, nor self-consistently. Here, we introduce an alternative approach for modelling the magnetic field dissipation from basic principles, using current ideas about turbulent fields and tearing mode instabilities.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 749 - 750
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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