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Acceleration and ejection of ring vortices as a mechanism for formation of jet components in AGN

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Exact solutions are obtained for the two-dimensional hydrodynamic equations for symmetric configurations of two and four vortices in the presence of an arbitrary flow with a point singularity. These solutions describe the dynamics of a dipole toroidal vortex in accretion and wind flows within the active nuclei of galaxies. It is shown that in a converging (accretion) flow, as they are compressed along their major radius, toroidal vortices are ejected with acceleration along the axis of symmetry of the active nucleus, to form the components of a bilateral jet. For a symmetric flow, the increase in the velocity of the vortices is determined by the monopole component of the flow, and, when there is an asymmetry in the flow, also by the dipole component of the flow, which controls the asymmetry of the ejection.

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  1. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    S. A. Poslavsky, E. Yu. Bannikova & V. M. Kontorovich

  2. Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    E. Yu. Bannikova & V. M. Kontorovich

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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 201-215 (May 2010).

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Poslavsky, S.A., Bannikova, E.Y. & Kontorovich, V.M. Acceleration and ejection of ring vortices as a mechanism for formation of jet components in AGN. Astrophysics 53, 174–188 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10511-010-9110-4

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