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The launching of jets from
astrophysical accretion disks
and black holes
Ioannis Contopoulos
2nd HELAS Summer School, Athens July 14, 2016
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• M87 jet: Curtis 1918
• Quasars: 60s
• Lynden-Bell 1969: Galactic nuclei as collapsed old quasars
• Lovelace 1976: Dynamo model of double radio sources
• Blandford 1976: Accretion disk electrodynamics
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The Faraday disk dynamo
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The launching of MHD jets from
astrophysical accretion disks
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• “Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the
production of radio jets”, Blandford & Payne 1982
• “Magnetically driven jets and winds: Exact solutions”,
Contopoulos & Lovelace 1994
• “A simple type of magnetically driven jets: an astrophysical
plasma gun”, Contopoulos 1995
• “Magnetized accretion-ejection structures”, Ferreira &
Pelletier 1993- and “Magnetohydrodynamic disk-wind
connection”, Li Zhi-Yun 1995-96
• “The universal magnetic structure of black hole accretion
disk winds”, Fukumura et al. 2016
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“Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets”,
Blandford & Payne 1982
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“Magnetically driven jets and winds: Exact solutions”,
Contopoulos & Lovelace 1994
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“Magnetically driven jets and winds: Exact solutions”,
Contopoulos & Lovelace 1994
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“A simple type of magnetically driven jets: an astrophysical plasma gun”,
Contopoulos 1995
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“A simple type of magnetically driven jets: an astrophysical plasma gun”,
Contopoulos 1995
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“Magnetohydrodynamic disk-
wind connection”, Li Zhi-Yun
1995-96
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“The universal magnetic structure of black hole accretion disk winds”,
Fukumura et al. 2016
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“The universal magnetic structure of black hole accretion disk winds”,
Fukumura et al. 2016
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“Disk-driven hydromagnetic winds as a key ingredient of active galactic nuclei
unification schemes”, Konigl & Kartje 1993
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The launching of MHD jets from
astrophysical black holes
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• “Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black
holes”, Blandford & Znajek 1977
• “Black hole magnetospheres”, Nathanail & Contopoulos
2014
• “Efficient generation of jets from magnetically arrested
accretion on a rapidly spinning black hole”, Tchekhovskoy,
Narayan, McKinney 2011-
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“Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes”,
Blandford & Znajek 1977
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“Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes”,
Blandford & Znajek 1977
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“Black hole magnetospheres”, Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
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“Black hole magnetospheres”, Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
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“Black hole magnetospheres”, Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
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“Black hole magnetospheres”, Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
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“Black hole magnetospheres”, Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
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• Wind separation zone (density floors!…)
• Null surface of rotating black hole (ωZAMO=ΩMF)
• Black hole gaps (in analogy to pulsars)
• Black hole electron-positron jets!
• Magnetospheric current sheet (in analogy to pulsars)
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The origin of the magnetic field
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• “A cosmic battery”, Contopoulos & Kazanas 1998
• “Dominance of outflowing electric currents on decaparsec to
kiloparsec scales in extragalactic jets”, Christodoulou et al.
2016
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“Accretion disk radiation dynamics and the cosmic battery”,
Koutsantoniou & Contopoulos 2015
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“Dominance of outflowing electric currents on decaparsec to kiloparsec scales in
extragalactic jets”, Christodoulou et al. 2016
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“Dominance of outflowing electric currents on decaparsec to kiloparsec scales in
extragalactic jets”, Christodoulou et al. 2016
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“Measurement of the electric current in
a kpc-scale jet”, Kronberg et al. 2011
“Dominance of outflowing electric
currents on decaparsec to kiloparsec
scales in extragalactic jets”,
Christodoulou et al. 2016
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“Deriving global structure of the Galactic
Magnetic Field from Faraday Rotation
Measures of extragalactic sources”,
Pshirkov et al. 2011
“Faraday rotation structure on
kiloparsec scales in the radio lobes
of Centaurus A”, Feain et al. 2009
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“Magnetism along spin”, Lynden-Bell 2013
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We know a lot about the
magnetic launching of
astrophysical jets…
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…but we still don’t know where
does the large scale
ordered magnetic field
come from…
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…if such large scale
ordered magnetic field
exists…
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The launching of jets from
astrophysical accretion disks
and black holes
Ioannis Contopoulos
2nd HELAS Summer School, Athens July 14, 2016