TY - JOUR
T1 - Astrophysical jets from topological currents
AU - Flachi, Antonino
AU - Fukushima, Kenji
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - In the presence of rotation, gravity induces, even at zero temperature, a chiral vortical current. This current is interpreted as emerging from the gravitational Chern-Simons current. We argue that this gravitational Chern-Simons chiral vortical current may provide a novel universal microscopic mechanism behind the generation of collimated jets from rotating astrophysical compact sources.
AB - In the presence of rotation, gravity induces, even at zero temperature, a chiral vortical current. This current is interpreted as emerging from the gravitational Chern-Simons current. We argue that this gravitational Chern-Simons chiral vortical current may provide a novel universal microscopic mechanism behind the generation of collimated jets from rotating astrophysical compact sources.
KW - anomalies
KW - astrophysical jets
KW - Chern-Simons current
KW - Chiral vortical effect
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U2 - 10.1142/S0218271817430076
DO - 10.1142/S0218271817430076
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85030310214
SN - 0218-2718
VL - 26
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics D
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics D
IS - 12
M1 - 1743007
ER -