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E.A. Gómez, P.E. Hardee (University of Alabama)
Recent simulations of collapsar jets indicate they are Kelvin-Helmholtz unstable as they propagate through the atmosphere of the collapsar progenitor. Pinch-body wave modes that grow in the flow are important at breakout for the subsequent jet evolution into a wind. From our stability analysis we predict that pinch-body modes should develop just upstream from the jet head at breakout. We then evolve the jet flow using the relativistic wind equation for a causally disconnected radial flow from the surface of a collapsar progenitor to the distance at which the flow becomes optically thin to gamma rays.
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36 #3
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