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Relativistic MHD jets and the GRBs

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arxiv astro-ph/0211019 v2 pith:GDAJQ4WX submitted 2002-11-01 astro-ph

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High velocity highly collimated beams of plasma -- the jets -- are known as a general phenomenon among astrophysical sources of different energy and spatial scale. The common MHD scenario of astrophysical jet formation allows to describe the different jet sources by a scaling of the jet magnetization. In this paper we apply the MHD jet theory for GRB parameters and find indeed that main features as ultra-relativistic motion and strong collimation can be explained. Others, like GRB time-variability and the bi-modal GRB duration are (yet) beyond a MHD description.

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