期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 842, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7264
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: Seyfert; magnetic fields; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
资金
- NASA [10-ATP10-0171, NNX11AI96G]
- NASA [144207, NNX11AI96G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
A magnetic field dragged from the galactic disk, along with inflowing gas, can provide vertical support to the geometrically and optically thick pc-scale torus in AGNs. Using the Soloviev solution initially developed for Tokamaks, we derive an analytical model for a rotating torus that is supported and confined by a magnetic field. We further perform three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of X-ray irradiated, pc-scale, magnetized tori. We follow the time evolution and compare models that adopt initial conditions derived from our analytic model with simulations in which the initial magnetic flux is entirely contained within the gas torus. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the initial conditions based on the analytic solution produce a longer-lived torus that produces obscuration that is generally consistent with observed constraints.
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