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Context. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) launch highly energetic jets sometimes outshining their host galaxy. These jets are collimated outflows that have been accelerated near a supermassive black hole located at the centre of the galaxy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-22 Christopher Prior , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We present the first numerical simulations that track the evolution of a black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) merger from pre-merger to $r\gtrsim10^{11}\,{\rm cm}$. The disk that forms after a merger of mass ratio $q=2$ ejects massive disk winds…

Relativistic discrete ejecta launched by black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) can be observed to propagate up to parsec-scales from the central object. Observing the final deceleration phase of these jets is crucial to estimate their…

Inspiraling and merging binary neutron stars are not only important source of gravitational waves, but also promising candidates for coincident electromagnetic counterparts. These systems are thought to be progenitors of short gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-03 Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

A spinning black hole accreting from a disk of strongly magnetized plasma via a magnetically arrested disk is known to produce an efficient electromagnetic jet powered by the black hole's spin energy. We present general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Angelo Ricarte , Ramesh Narayan , Brandon Curd

In this work we have estimated upper and lower limits to the strength of the magnetic dipole moment of all 14 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). For each source we searched the archival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Peter Bult , Michiel van der Klis , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We model interaction with the surrounding medium of the main discrete jet ejection in the accreting black-hole binary MAXI J1348--630. The kinetic energy in the ejection of that jet was estimated before to be $>10^{46}$ erg. That energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Marek Sikora , Michal Szanecki , Markus Boettcher

Astrophysical jets, launched from the immediate vicinity of accreting black holes, carry away large amounts of power in a form of bulk kinetic energy of jet particles and electromagnetic flux. Here we consider a simple analytical model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Dominika Ł. Król , Łukasz Stawarz , Mitchell C. Begelman , José-María Martí , Manel Perucho , Bohdan A. Petrenko

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

Accreting neutron stars can power a wide range of astrophysical phenomena including short- and long-duration gamma-ray bursts, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, and X-ray binaries. Numerical simulations are a valuable tool for studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Kyle Parfrey , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) host some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. AGN are thought to be powered by accretion of matter onto a rotating disk that surrounds a supermassive black hole. Jet streams can be boosted in energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Sebastien Muller , Wouter Vlemmings , Cathy Horellou , Susanne Aalto

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

We consider the explosion of supernovae and the possible production of a variety of high energy transients by delayed black hole formation in massive stars endowed with rotation. Following the launch of a ``successful'' shock by the usual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. I. MacFadyen , S. E. Woosley , A. Heger

We investigate the effect of a disc-driven jet on the accretion growth of cosmological supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The presence of a jet enhances the mass growth rate because for a given luminosity, the mass accretion rate, is higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erin Jolley , Zdenka Kuncic

Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by accretion of matter onto super massive black holes. While the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic…

Under the coronal magnetic field, we estimate the maximal jet power of the Blandford-\Znajek (BZ) mechanism, Blandford-\Payne (BP) mechanism, and hybrid model. The jet power of the BZ and Hybrid model mechanisms depends on the spin of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-26 Chen Yongyun , Gu Qiusheng , Fan Junhui , Yu xiaoling , Ding Nan , Guo Xiaotong , Xiong Dingrong

Numerical simulations of black hole hot accretion flows have shown the existence of strong wind. Those works focus only on the region close to black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-Hong Yang

We present numerical simulations of the axisymmetric accretion of a massive magnetized plasma torus on a rotating black hole. We use a realistic equation of state, which takes into account neutrino cooling and energy loss due to nucleus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxim V. Barkov , Anton N. Baushev

We calculated the electron-positron pair production rate at the base of the jet of 3C 120 by collisions of photons from the hot accretion flow using the measurement of its average soft gamma-ray spectrum by Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Dakalo G. Phuravhathu , Marek Sikora , Markus Boettcher , James O. Chibueze

The problem of Astrophysical Jet formation from relativistic accretion disks through the establishment of relativistic disk-powerful jet equilibrium structure is studied applying the Beltrami-Bernoulli equilibrium approach of Shatashvili &…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 E. Katsadze , N. Revazashvili , N. L. Shatashvili