Figure 21: MPEG movie illustrating the
propagation of a relativistic jet from a collapsar, whose
progenitor is a rotating He star with a
radius of . All
three panels show the rest mass density distribution. The left panel displays the
computational domain up to the head of the jet (note the changing axis and color scales). The upper
right panel shows the central region (scale fixed) where the jet forms due to a prescribed
time-independent and spatially localized energy deposition
rate ( ). One can recognize the
central spherical region (black circle) of radius which was excised from the
computational domain. It contains a (rotating) black hole of
initially three solar masses accreting
matter through the inner grid boundary. The lower right panel
provides a global view (scale fixed)
of the computational domain up to the surface of the He star
progenitor. (Movie courtesy of
M.A. Aloy.)
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