Paper:	Stability of Magnetized Relativistic Jets
Volume:	427, Accretion and Ejection in AGN: a Global View
Page:	203
Authors:	Mizuno, Y.; Hardee, P. E.; Lyubarsky, Y.; Nishikawa, K.-I.
Abstract:	We investigated the stability of magnetized relativistic jets through 3D relativistic MHD simulations. First we investigated the stability of magnetized spine-sheath relativistic jets against Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability. We found that destructive KH modes can be stabilized even when the jet Lorentz factor significantly exceeds the Alfven Lorentz factor. Second we studied the development of current-driven (CD) kink instability of a static force-free helical magnetic field configuration. We found that the initial configuration is strongly distorted but not disrupted by CD kink instability. The linear growth and nonlinear evolution of the CD kink instability depends on the radial density profile and strongly depends on the magnetic pitch profile.

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