Fossil AGN jets as ultrahigh-energy particle accelerators
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Fossil AGN jets as ultra high energy particle accelerators
Remnants of AGN jets and their surrounding cocoons leave colossal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fossil structures storing total energies ∼10 erg. The original active galacic nucleus (AGN) may be dead but the fossil will retain its stable configuration resembling the reversed-field pinch (RFP) encountered in laboratory MHD experiments. In an RFP the longitudinal magnetic field changes direction at a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12565.x