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Paper: Why Do Disks Form Jets?
Volume: 249, The Central Kiloparsec of Starbursts and AGN: the La Palma Connection
Page: 212
Authors: Lynden-Bell, D.
Abstract: It is argued that jet modelers have given insufficient study to the natural magneto-static configurations of field wound up in the presence of a confining general pressure. Such fields form towers whose height grows with each twist at a velocity comparable to the circular velocity of the accretion disk that turns them. A discussion of the generation of such towers is preceded by a brief history of the idea that quasars, active galaxies, and galactic nuclei contain giant black holes with accretion disks.
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