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Simulations of Relativistic Jet Formation in Compact Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

David L. Meier*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Abstract

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I review recent numerical and analytic work on the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of jet formation in active galactic nuclei, with an emphasis on producing the highly relativistic outflows and high radio luminosities observed in the most powerful sources.

Type
The Inner Regions of Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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