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jet current

(electric current within a plasma jet)

A jet current is an electric current in a plasma jet. It can be modeled and deduced from observation, and can be a significant contributor to the behavior of plasma jets under extreme forces, e.g., black hole accretion such as active galactic nuclei.


(electromagnetism,jets)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741L..15K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...612A..67G/abstract

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