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Traveling across several order of magnitude in distance, relativistic jets from strong gravity region to asymptotic flat spacetime region are believed to consist of several general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) processes. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Hung-Yi Pu , Masaaki Takahashi

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Theodora Papavasileiou , Odysseas Kosmas , Ioannis Sinatkas

It is generally believed that the magnetic free energy accumulated in the corona serves as a main energy source for solar explosions such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In the framework of the flux rope catastrophe model for CMEs, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Y. Chen , Y. Q. Hu , S. J. Sun

Spiral jets are impulsive plasma ejections that typically show an apparent rotation motion. Their generation, however, is still nont understood thoroughly. Based on a high-resolution vector magnetogram form the Polarimetric and Helioseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Z. F. Li , J. H. Guo , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , S. Poedts , D. Calchetti

We have performed a fully three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of jet formation from a thin accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole with a free-falling corona. The initial simulation results…

I present results from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a gaseous envelope collapsing onto a black hole. These results support the notion that the collapsar model is one of most promising scenarios to explain the huge release of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Proga

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

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are qualitatively affected by the presence of ordered magnetic fields. We study fully three-dimensional global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of radially extended and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Roger D. Blandford

Nanoflares, which are consequences of braids in tangled magnetic fields, are an important candidate to heat the solar corona to million degrees. However, their observational evidence is sparse and many of their observational characteristics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Xiuhui Zuo , Zhenghua Huang , Hengyuan Wei , Chao Zhang , Boyu Sun , Youqian Qi , Hui Fu , Weixin Liu , Mingzhe Sun , Ming Xiong , Lidong Xia

We present the first collisionless realization of two-dimensional axisymmetric black hole accretion consistent with a persistent magnetically arrested disk state. The accretion flow, consisting of an ion-electron disk plasma combined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Jesse Vos , Benoit Cerutti , Monika Moscibrodzka , Kyle Parfrey

The dynamics of black hole magnetospheres critically depend on the black hole spin and on the structure of the accretion flow. In the limit of a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a zero-net angular momentum flow, accretion is spherical.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Enzo Figueiredo , John Mehlhaff , Adrien Soudais , Benoît Cerutti

We discuss the importance of large scale strong magnetic field in the removal of angular momentum outward, as well as the possible origin of different kinds of magnetic barrier in advective, geometrically thick, sub-Keplerian accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Blazars show variability on timescales ranging from minutes to years, the former being comparable to and in some cases even shorter than the light-crossing time of the central black hole. The observed gamma-ray lightcurves can be described…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Michael O' Riordan , Asaf Pe'er , Jonathan C. McKinney

In this paper, with a survey through the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) data from 1996 to 2009, we present 11 events with plasma blobs flowing outwards sequentially along a bright coronal ray in the wake of a coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hong-Qiang Song , Xiang-Liang Kong , Yao Chen , Bo Li , Gang Li , Shi-Wei Feng , Li-Dong Xia

We examine the temporary evolution of axisymmetric magnetospheres around rapidly rotating black holes (BHs), by applying our two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation code. Assuming a stellar-mass BH, we find that the created pairs fail…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-02 Kouichi Hirotani , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Ken-ichi Nishikawa

Black hole accretion disks appear to produce invariably plasma outflows that result in blue-shifted absorption features in their spectra. The X-ray absorption-line properties of these outflows are quite diverse, ranging in velocity from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas , Chris Shrader , Ehud Behar , Francesco Tombesi , Ioannis Contopoulos

Relativistic jets and disc-winds are typically observed in BH-XRBs and AGNs. However, many physical details of jet launching and the driving of disc winds from the underlying accretion disc are still not fully understood. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Indu K. Dihingia , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

Black hole - accretion disc systems are the central engines of relativistic jets from stellar to galactic scales. We numerically quantify the unsteady outgoing Poynting flux through the horizon of a rapidly spinning black hole endowed with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 J. F. Mahlmann , A. Levinson , M. A. Aloy

General-relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of accreting black holes suggest that the accretion flows form toroidal structures embedded in a large scale component of magnetic field, which becomes organized on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-08 Petra Suková , Michal Zajaček , Vladimír Karas

We investigate the extraction of the rotational energy of a black hole under different accreting environment. When the accretion rate is moderate, the accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner advection-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hsiang-Kuang Chang