EPISODIC MAGNETIC BUBBLES AND JETS: ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS FROM LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
EPISODIC MAGNETIC BUBBLES AND JETS: ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS FROM LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
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10.1088/0004-637x/691/2/l147
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2008-11
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Andrea Ciardi;S. Lebedev;A. Frank;F. Suzuki-Vidal;G. Hall;S. Bland;A. Harvey-Thompson;E. Blackman;M. M. L. D. Paris-M.;Lerma;France Imperial College;B. Laboratory;U. Rochester;D. Physics;Astronomy;Usa University of Heidelberg;Centre for Astronomy Heidelberg;Germany. Present address Ecole Normale Superieure;Laboratoire de Radioastronomie;France.
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Andrea Ciardi;S. Lebedev;A. Frank;F. Suzuki-Vidal;G. Hall;S. Bland;A. Harvey-Thompson;E. Blackman;M. M. L. D. Paris-M.;Lerma;France Imperial College;B. Laboratory;U. Rochester;D. Physics;Astronomy;Usa University of Heidelberg;Centre for Astronomy Heidelberg;Germany. Present address Ecole Normale Superieure;Laboratoire de Radioastronomie;France.
Collimated outflows (jets) are ubiquitous in the universe, appearing around sources as diverse as protostars and extragalactic supermassive black holes. Jets are thought to be magnetically collimated, and launched from a magnetized accretion disk surrounding a compact gravitating object. We have developed the first laboratory experiments to address time-dependent, episodic phenomena relevant to the poorly understood jet acceleration and collimation region. The experimental results show the periodic ejections of magnetic bubbles naturally evolving into a heterogeneous jet propagating inside a channel made of self-collimated magnetic cavities. The results provide a unique view of the possible transition from a relatively steady-state jet launching to the observed highly structured outflows.