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The jet activity of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and its interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM), may play a pivotal role in the processes which regulate the growth and star formation of its host galaxy. Observational evidence which…

Results are presented from long term VLBI monitoring of the parsec-scale radio jet in 3C120, primarily at 5 and 1.7 GHz. Numerous superluminal features are followed, some over large fractional distances from the core. The speeds of the…

Using high resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations in 3D, we investigate the formation of relativistic jets from rotating magnetospheres. Here, we focus on the development of non-axisymmetric modes due to internal and external…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oliver Porth

We study the conditions under which high mode magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating on a rotating jet emerging from the filament eruption on 2013 April 10--11 can became unstable against the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra

The analysis of the stability properties of astrophysical jets against Kelvin-Helmholtz (or shear-layer) instabilities plays a basic role in the understanding the origin and physical characteristics of these objects. Numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Micono , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari , R. Rosner

Relativistic outflows represent one of the best-suited tools to probe the physics of AGN. Numerical modelling of internal structure of the relativistic outflows on parsec scales provides important clues about the conditions and dynamics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Perucho , A. P. Lobanov , J. M. Marti

Stability properties of ``magnetic tower'' jets propagating in the gravitationally stratified background have been examined by performing three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The current-carrying, Poynting flux-dominated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Nakamura , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

An increasing number of blazars have been reported to show jet wobbling (i.e., non-regular rotations of the structural position angle of their innermost jets in the plane of the sky with amplitudes between 20 deg. and 50 deg., and time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-25 I. Agudo

Context: Few Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) reveal a double sided jet system. However, these are crucial to understand basic physical properties of extragalactic jets. Aims: We address the questions whether jets in AGN are symmetric in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 A. -K. Baczko , R. Schulz , M. Kadler , E. Ros , M. Perucho , C. M. Fromm , J. Wilms

We investigated the jet width profile with distance along the jet in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 1052 at radial distances between $\sim300$ to $4 \times 10^7$ Schwarzschild Radii($R_{\rm S}$) from the central engine on both their…

In the study of relativistic jets one of the key open questions is their interaction with the environment on the microscopic level. Here, we study the initial evolution of both electron$-$proton ($e^{-}-p^{+}$) and electron$-$positron…

New high-resolution Very Long Baseline Interferometer observations of the prominent jet in the M87 radio galaxy show a persistent triple-ridge structure of the transverse 15-GHz profile with a previously unobserved ultra-narrow central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-29 Denis Nikolaevich Sob'yanin

We have performed magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic jets from supermassive blackholes over a few tens of kpc for a range of jet parameters. One of the primary aims were to investigate the effect of different MHD instabilities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Andrea Mignone , Paola Rossi , Bhargav Vaidya

The interaction between various wavelike structures in screeching jets is considered via both experimental measurements and linear stability theory. Velocity snapshots of screeching jets are used to produce a reduced order model of the…

MHD jet equilibria that depend on source properties are obtained using a simplified model for stationary, axisymmetric and rotating magnetized outflows. The present rotation laws are more complex than previously considered and include a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thibaut Lery , Adam Frank

General circulation models of the atmosphere of hot Jupiters have shown the existence of a supersonic eastward equatorial jet. In this paper, we investigate the effects of compressibility on the atmospheric dynamics by solving the standard…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sébastien Fromang , Jérémy Leconte , Kevin Heng

Knotty structures of Herbig-Haro jets are common phenomena, and knowing the origin of these structures is essential for understanding the processes of jet formation. Basically, there are two theoretical approaches: different types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. A. Movsessian , T. Yu. Magakian , A. V. Moiseev

3C84 (NGC1275) is one of the brightest radio sources in the mm radio-bands, which led to a plethora of VLBI observations at numerous frequencies over the years. They reveal a two-sided jet structure, with an expanding but not…

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of strongly magnetized ``light'' conical jets have been performed. An investigation of the transition from sub-Alfv\'enic to super-Alfv\'enic flow has been made for nearly poloidal and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. E. Hardee , A. Rosen

We present an in-depth analysis of transverse oscillations in the M87 jet, as identified in our previous study (Ro et al. 2023a), which reported oscillatory patterns with a characteristic period of $\sim$1 year in the edge-brightened jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-04 Hyunwook Ro , Motoki Kino , Kazuhiro Hada , Yosuke Mizuno , Yuzhu Cui , Kunwoo Yi , Tomohisa Kawashima , Jongho Park , Bong Won Sohn