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Influence of self-gravity on the equilibrium structures of magnetized tori

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2017

Audrey Trova
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční II 1401, Prague, CZ-141 31, Czech Republic
Vladimír Karas
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční II 1401, Prague, CZ-141 31, Czech Republic
Petr Slaný
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-746 01 Opava, Czech Republic
Jiří Kovář
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-746 01 Opava, Czech Republic
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Abstract

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We present some results obtained with a toy model developed in Trova et al. 2016 used to study the influence of the self-gravity on the equilibrium configurations of magnetized rotating self-gravitating gaseous tori, in the context of gaseous/dusty tori surrounding supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei. While the central black hole dominates the gravitational field and it remains electrically neutral, the surrounding material has a non-negligible self-gravitational effect on the torus structure. The vertical and radial structures of the torus are influenced by the balance between the gravitational and the magnetic force. By comparison with a previous work without self-gravity (Slany et al. 2016), we show that the conditions of existence of these configurations can change.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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