Contraction of magnetized gas to the central gravitator and the production of magnetically accelerated jets

A magnetodynamic model proposed and worked on by Uchida and collaborators for the star formation jets (bipolar flows), by taking a genetic point of view into account, is reviewed. A large scale magnetic field, which is week in the primordial gas but intensified in the gravitational contraction of the gas, assists the continuous accretion of the gas to the central gravitator by extracting angular momentum from the rotating disk, and this process creates a large amplitude torsional Alfven wave that swirls up the gas into the direction of the axis. This torsional Alfven wave, as it propagates, pinches the large scale field into a slender strong field structure which we identify with the collimated jet. The rationale for extending this mechanism to the AGN jet cases is given, and some results of application to the AGN jet case are presented, with interpretation of some characteristic features like the wiggling of the jets, extended radio lobes and the hotspots at the end of the jets.