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We show that accretion disks with magnetic fields in them ought to make jets provided that their electrical conductivity prevents slippage and there is an ambient pressure in their surroundings. We study equilibria of highly wound magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D Lynden-Bell

Observations of gamma-ray-bursts and jets from active galactic nuclei reveal that the jet flow is characterized by a high radiative efficiency and that the dissipative mechanism must be a powerful accelerator of non-thermal particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Lorenzo Sironi , Maria Petropoulou , Dimitrios Giannios

The effect of an accretion disk on the Blandford-Znajek process and the evolution of a black hole are discussed using a simplified system for the black hole - accretion disk in which the accretion rate is supposed to be dominated by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyun Kyu Lee , Hui-Kyung Kim

The dramatic relativistic jets pointing directly at us in BL Lac objects can be well modelled by bulk motion beaming of synchrotron self-Compton emission powered by a low Eddington fraction accretion flow. Nearly 500 of these AGN are seen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Emma Gardner , Chris Done

The problem of interaction of the rotating magnetic field, frozen to a star, with a thin well conducting accretion disk is solved exactly. It is shown that a disk pushes the magnetic field lines towards a star, compressing the stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Ya. N. Istomin , P. Haensel

Accretion disks are ubiquitous in the universe and it is generally accepted that magnetic fields play a pivotal role in accretion-disk physics. The spin history of millisecond pulsars, which are usually classified as magnetized neutron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-16 Luca Naso , John Miller , Wlodek Kluzniak

We use axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the launching and collimation of jets emerging from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of accreting magnetized stars. Our analysis shows that the matter flows into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-25 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Richard V. Lovelace

We construct a numerical model of emission from minijets, localized flows driven by magnetic reconnection inside Poynting-flux-dominated jets proposed to explain the ultrafast variability of blazars. The geometrical structure of the model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Dimitrios Giannios , Mitchell C. Begelman , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Marek Sikora

Radiation emitted from an accretion disk around a massive black hole is a widely discussed model for the UV/soft X-ray excess emission observed in the spectra of many AGN. A self-consistent calculation of the structure and the emerging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-02 T. Doerrer , H. Riffert , R. Staubert , H. Ruder

Connections between accretion disks and jets in accreting black holes are anticipated theoretically. In recent years, potential evidence for such connections has been emerging, most vividly in the convenient regime of stellar-mass black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. M. Miller

General relativistic numerical simulations of magnetized accretion flows around black holes show a disordered electromagnetic structure in the disk and corona and a highly relativistic, Poynting-dominated funnel jet in the polar regions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

The powerful narrow jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of a magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , H. Li , G. V. Ustyugova , M. M. Romanova , S. A. Colgate

Semi-analytical models of disk outflows have successfully described magnetically-driven, self-confined super-Alfv\'enic jets from near Keplerian accretion disks. These Jet Emitting Disks are possible for high levels of disk magnetization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 J. Jacquemin-Ide , J. Ferreira , G. Lesur

We present the detailed global structure of black hole accretion flows and outflows through newly performed two-dimensional radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By starting from a torus threaded with weak toroidal magnetic fields and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ken Ohsuga , Shin Mineshige

The transfer of energy and angular momentum in the magnetic coupling (MC) of a rotating black hole (BH) with its surrounding accretion disc is discussed based on a mapping relation derived by considering the conservation of magnetic flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. X. Wang , W. H. Lei , R. Y. Ma

Accreting pulsars power relativistic jets, and display a complex spin phenomenology. These behaviours may be closely related to the large-scale configuration of the star's magnetic field, shaped by its interaction with the surrounding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Kyle Parfrey , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Context: Very high magnetic fields at the surface of neutron stars or in the accretion disk of black holes inhibit the production of jets. Aims: We quantify here the magnetic field strength for jet formation. Methods: By using the Alfven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Massi , M. Kaufman Bernado

We have carried out and analyzed a set of axisymmetric MHD simulations of the evolution of a turbulent/diffusive accretion disc around an initially unmagnetized star. The disc is initially threaded by a weak magnetic field where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Dyda , R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , P. S. Lii , M. M. Romanova , A. V. Koldoba

Effects of magnetic coupling (MC) of a rotating black hole (BH) with its surrounding accretion disk are discussed in detail in the following aspects: (i) The mapping relation between the angular coordinate on the BH horizon and the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. X. Wang , R. Y. Ma , W. H. Lei , G. Z. Yao

We have performed 3-D numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet experiments to study the instabilities associated with strongly toroidal magnetic fields and determine if such magnetic configurations in jets are as unstable as similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Thomsen , A. Nordlund