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The Strong Magnetic Field Galactic Center-AGN-Quasar Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Howard D. Greyber
Howard D. Greyber*
Affiliation:
Physics Dept., George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 Permanent address: 10123 Falls Road, Potomac, MD 20854

Abstract

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The energy storage and dynamics at the center of galaxies is explained using a new construct, the gravitationally bound current loop (GBCL), produced when the galaxy formed under gravitational collapse. Thin toroidal plasma around the slender intense relativistic current loop is bound to it by the Maxwell “frozen-field” condition, and also binds gravitationally to the central object (presumably a black hole). The Strong Magnetic Field model (SMF) explains directly the Milky Way (MW) galactic center radio observations of a vertical magnetic field perpendicular to the galactic disk and the extended radio arcs, as well as the production of successive radio blobs ejected from the compact cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) or quasars.

Type
Magnetic Phenomena
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 136: The Galactic Center , 1989 , pp. 335 - 340
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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