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Astrophysical Jets driven by Magnetic Fields ?

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Astrophysical jets are cosmologically common, occurring in systems as diverse, as forming proto-stars (in Bok Globules):

 

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to post-stellar remnants, in X-ray Binaries:

 

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Now, jets are 'anti-symmetric', since they travel in opposite directions, both being out-bound. Thus, reversing the rotation of the disk-and-central-object, would not affect the jets. Such an 'anti-symmetry' is characteristic of dipoloidal magnetic fields, whose 'looping' field lines converge down into the disk, from one pole; and diverge up away from the disk, towards the other pole.

 

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That 'odd symmetry' of the magnetic field, implies that ions above the disk would be accelerated upwards, whereas ions below the disk, would be accelerated downwards -- to wit, both outbound. Thus, provided that the accretion disk rotates in the same sense, as the central magnetic-field-generating-object, then dipoloidal magnetic fields 'have the required character' for the central engine powering jets.

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