TY - JOUR
T1 - Global simulations of differentially rotating magnetized disks
T2 - Formation of low-β filaments and structured coronae
AU - Machida, M.
AU - Hayashi, Mitsuru R.
AU - Matsumoto, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank K. Shibata, T. Tajima, S. Mineshige, T. Kawaguchi, and K. Makishima for discussion. Numerical computations were carried out by VPP300/16R at NAOJ. This work is supported in part by a grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation and a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (07640348, 10147105).
PY - 2000/3/20
Y1 - 2000/3/20
N2 - We present the results of three-dimensional global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Parker-shearing instability in a differentially rotating torus initially threaded by toroidal magnetic fields. An equilibrium model of a magnetized torus is adopted as an initial condition. When β0 = Pgas/Pmag ∼ 1 at the initial state, magnetic flux buoyantly escapes from the disk and creates looplike structures similar to those in the solar corona. Inside the torus, the growth of nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational (or Balbus & Hawley) instability generates magnetic turbulence. Magnetic field lines are tangled on a small scale, but on a large scale they show low azimuthal wavenumber spiral structure. After several rotation periods, the system oscillates around a state with β ∼ 5. We found that magnetic pressure-dominated (β < 1) filaments are created in the torus. The volume filling factor of the region in which β ≤ 0.3 is 2%-10%. Magnetic energy release in such low-β regions may lead to violent flaring activities in accretion disks and in galactic gas disks.
AB - We present the results of three-dimensional global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Parker-shearing instability in a differentially rotating torus initially threaded by toroidal magnetic fields. An equilibrium model of a magnetized torus is adopted as an initial condition. When β0 = Pgas/Pmag ∼ 1 at the initial state, magnetic flux buoyantly escapes from the disk and creates looplike structures similar to those in the solar corona. Inside the torus, the growth of nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational (or Balbus & Hawley) instability generates magnetic turbulence. Magnetic field lines are tangled on a small scale, but on a large scale they show low azimuthal wavenumber spiral structure. After several rotation periods, the system oscillates around a state with β ∼ 5. We found that magnetic pressure-dominated (β < 1) filaments are created in the torus. The volume filling factor of the region in which β ≤ 0.3 is 2%-10%. Magnetic energy release in such low-β regions may lead to violent flaring activities in accretion disks and in galactic gas disks.
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U2 - 10.1086/312553
DO - 10.1086/312553
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034688827
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 532
SP - L67-L70
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1 PART 2
ER -