Modelling magnetically dominated and radiatively cooling jets

Abstract

Using 3D-MHD Eulerian-grid numerical simulations, we study the formation and evolution of rising magnetic towers propagating into an ambient medium. The towers are generated from a localized injection of pure magnetic energy. No rotation is imposed on the plasma. We compare the evolution of a radiatively cooling tower with an adiabatic one, and find that both bend due to pinch instabilities. Collimation is stronger in the radiative cooling case; the adiabatic tower tends to expand radially. Structural similarities are found between these towers and the millimeter scale magnetic towers produced in laboratory experiments.

5 pages, 2 figures, accepter for publication in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 275, "Jets at all Scales", Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13-17 September 2010, eds. G.E. Romero, R.A. Sunyaev and T. Belloni

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