BARYON LOADING OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS JETS MEDIATED BY NEUTRONS

被引:20
作者
Toma, K. [1 ]
Takahara, F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Osaka Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Earth & Space Sci, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
关键词
black hole physics; galaxies: jets; plasmas; GAMMA-RAY BURST; PARTICLE-ACCELERATION; RELATIVISTIC NEUTRONS; ACCRETION; OUTFLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; FIREBALL; DISKS;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/148
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Plasmas of geometrically thick, black hole (BH) accretion flows in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are generally collisionless for protons, and involve magnetic field turbulence. Under such conditions a fraction of protons can be accelerated stochastically and create relativistic neutrons via nuclear collisions. These neutrons can freely escape from the accretion flow and decay into protons in the dilute polar region above the rotating BH to form relativistic jets. We calculate geometric efficiencies of the neutron energy and mass injections into the polar region, and show that this process can deposit luminosity as high as L-j similar to 2 x 10(-3) (M) over dot c(2) and mass loading (M) over dot(j) similar to 6 x 10 (4) (M) over dot for the case of the BH mass M similar to 10(8) M-circle dot, where M. is the mass accretion rate. The terminal Lorentz factors of the jets are Gamma similar to 3, and they may explain the AGN jets having low luminosities. For higher luminosity jets, which can be produced by additional energy inputs such as Poynting flux, the neutron decay still can be a dominant mass loading process, leading to, e.g., Gamma similar to 50 for L-j,L-tot similar to 3 x 10(-2) (M) over dot(2).
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