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Stellar explosions powered by the Blandford-Znajek mechanism

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arxiv 0710.2654 v2 pith:WOQJ5NHO submitted 2007-10-14 astro-ph

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In this letter we briefly describe the first results of our numerical study on the possibility of magnetic origin of relativistic jets of long duration gamma ray bursters within the collapsar scenario. We track the collapse of massive rotating stars onto a rotating central black hole using axisymmetric general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code that utilizes a realistic equation of state of stellar matter, takes into account the cooling associated with emission of neutrinos, and the energy losses due to dissociation of nuclei. The neutrino heating is not included. We describe the solution for one particular model where the progenitor star has magnetic field $B=10^{10}$G. The solution exhibits strong explosion driven by the Poynting-dominated jets whose power exceeds $2\times10^{51} {erg/s}$. The jets originate mainly from the black hole and they are powered via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. The full details of the simulations together with the results of parameter study will be presented elsewhere. A number of simulation movies can be downloaded from http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~serguei/research/movies/anim.html

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