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magnetic tower

(length of twisted magnetic field lines produced by rotating field)

The term magnetic tower has been used for a length of magnetic field lines twisted due to the rotation of magnetic field. The motivating case is such a configuration extending along the rotation axis of an accretion disk, such as that of a black hole or young stellar object. Such magnetic towers are presumed to be a factor in the production of jets.


(MHD,accretion disk,magnetism)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MNRAS.341.1360L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PhPl...14e6501C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...757...66H/abstract
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~martinhe/iaunam.pdf

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