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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 532, 期 1, 页码 L67-L70出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/312553
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accretion, accretion disks; instabilities; ISM : magnetic fields; MHD; plasmas
We present the results of three-dimensional global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Parker-shearing instability in a differentially rotating torus initially threaded by toroidal magnetic fields. An equilibrium model of a magnetized torus is adopted as an initial condition. When beta(0) = P(gas)/P(mag) similar to 1 at the initial state, magnetic flux buoyantly escapes from the disk and creates looplike structures similar to those in the solar corona. Inside the torus, the growth of nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational (or Balbus & Hawley) instability generates magnetic turbulence. Magnetic field lines are tangled on a small scale, but on a large scale they show low azimuthal wavenumber spiral structure. After several rotation periods, the system oscillates around a state with beta similar to 5. We found that magnetic pressure-dominated (beta < I) filaments are created in the torus. The volume filling factor of the region in which beta less than or equal to 0.3 is 2%-10%. Magnetic energy release in such low-P regions may lead to violent flaring activities in accretion disks and in galactic gas disks.
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