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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 677, Issue 1, Pages 317-326Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/529025
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accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies : jets; gamma rays : bursts instabilities; ISM : jets and outflows; magnetic fields; MHD; stars : oscillations turbulence
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The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate a vertical magnetic field in their centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level, where it disrupts a nearly axisymmetric outer accretion disk inside a magnetospheric radius, forming a magnetically arrested disk ( MAD). In the MAD, the mass accretes in the form of irregular dense spiral streams, and the vertical field, split into separate bundles, penetrates through the disk plane in low-density magnetic islands. The accreting mass, when spiraling inward, drags the field and twists it around the axis of rotation, resulting in collimated Poynting jets in the polar directions. These jets are powered by the accretion flow with an efficiency of up to similar to 1.5% ( in units of. M(in)c(2)). The spiral flow pattern in the MAD is dominated by modes with low azimuthal wavenumbers m similar to 1-5 and can be a source of quasi-periodic oscillations in the outgoing radiation. The formation of the MAD and the Poynting jets can naturally explain the observed changes of spectral states in galactic black hole binaries. Our study is focused on black hole accretion flows; however, the results can also be applied to accretion disks around nonrelativistic objects, such as young stellar objects and stars in binary systems.
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