Simulations show that decreasing the magnetic pitch suppresses the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in over-pressured jets and instead excites a current-driven kink instability, offering a qualitative explanation for BL Lac quasi-periodic oscillations.
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Numerical Investigation of Instabilities in Over-pressured Magnetized Relativistic Jets
Simulations show that decreasing the magnetic pitch suppresses the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in over-pressured jets and instead excites a current-driven kink instability, offering a qualitative explanation for BL Lac quasi-periodic oscillations.