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Trapped, Two-Armed, Nearly Vertical Oscillations in Disks with Toroidal Magnetic Fields

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

We have examined trapping of two-armed (m=2m=2) nearly vertical oscillations (vertical p-mode) in vertically isothermal (cs=c_{\rm s}= const.) relativistic disks with toroidal magnetic fields. The magnetic fields are stratified so that the Alfv{\'e}n speed, cAc_{\rm A}, is constant in the vertical direction. The ratio of cA2/cs2c_{\rm A}^2/c_{\rm s}^2 in the vertical direction is taken as a parameter examining the effects of magnetic fields on wave trapping. We find that the two-armed nearly vertical oscillations are trapped in the inner region of disks and their frequencies decrease with increase of cA2/cs2c_{\rm A}^2/c_{\rm s}^2. The trapped regions of the fundamental (n=1n=1) and the first-overtone (n=2n=2) are narrow (less than the length of the Schwarzschild radius, rgr_{\rm g}) and their frequencies are relatively high (on the order of the angular frequency of disk rotation in the inner region). On contrast to this, the second-overtone (n=3n=3) are trapped in a wide region (a few times rgr_{\rm g}), and their frequencies are low and tend to zero in the limit of cA2/cs2=2.0c_{\rm A}^2/c_{\rm s}^2=2.0.

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@article{arxiv.1010.6189,
  title  = {Trapped, Two-Armed, Nearly Vertical Oscillations in Disks with Toroidal Magnetic Fields},
  author = {Shoji Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.6189},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages, 6 figures, accepted PASJ 63, No.1 (2011)