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The interaction of supersonic laser-generated plasma jets with a secondary gas target was studied experimentally. The plasma parameters of the jet, and the resulting shock, were characterized using a combination of multi-frame…

lasma instabilities excited in collisionless shocks are responsible for particle acceleration. We have investigated the particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic electron-positron jet propagating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. -I. Nishikawa , E. J. Choi , K. Min , P. Hardee , Y. Mizuno , B. Zhang , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , A. Nordlund , J. Fredriksen , M. Pohl , H. Sol , D. H. Hartmann , G. J. Fishman

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 Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Th. V. Papavasileiou , O. T. Kosmas , J. Sinatkas

The interaction of microquasar jets with their environment can produce non-thermal radiation as is the case for extragalactic outflows impacting on their surroundings. We have developed an analytical model based on those successfully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Bordas , V. Bosch-Ramon , J. M. Paredes , M. Perucho

This work is a theoretical study of the speed at which the material of an impacted target is ejected during the formation of an impact crater. Our model, starting from the first principle of thermodynamics, can describes the speed of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Hector J. Durand-Manterola , Alvaro Suarez-Cortés

Internal shocks caused by fluctuations of the outflow velocity are likely to power the radio to IR emission of the compact jets of X-ray binaries. The dynamics of internal shocks and the resulting spectral energy distribution (SED) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Julien Malzac

Nonthermal radiation observed from astrophysical systems containing relativistic jets and shocks, e.g., active galactic nuclei (AGNs), gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and Galactic microquasar systems usually have power-law emission spectra. Recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. -I. Nishikawa , Y. Mizuno , G. J. Fishman , P. Hardee

High energy emission can be produced in the interaction sites of both galactic and extragalactic jets with the surrounding medium. We have developed a radiative model that accounts for the continuous injection of relativistic electrons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-14 P. Bordas , V. Bosch-Ramon , M. Perucho

We explore the possibility of formation of steady internal shocks in jets around black holes. We consider a fluid described by a relativistic equation of state, flowing about the axis of symmetry ($\theta=0$) in a Schwarzschild metric. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Mukesh Vyas , Indranil Chattopadhyay

The internal shocks scenario in relativistic jets is used to explain the variability of the blazar emission. Recent studies have shown that the magnetic field significantly alters the shell collision dynamics, producing a variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-02 Jesus M. Rueda-Becerril , Petar Mimica , Miguel A. Aloy

We use relativistic hydrodynamic numerical calculations to study the interaction between a jet and a homologous outflow produced dynamically during binary neutron star mergers. We quantify how the thermal energy supplied by the jet to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Paul C. Duffell , Eliot Quataert , Daniel Kasen , Hannah Klion

Popular internal shock models, developed to explain production of high energy flares in blazar jets, involve collisions between local overdensities of matter being ejected by a central engine and moving along the jet with different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Moderski , M. Sikora , G. Madejski , T. Kamae

Relativistic jets from (supermassive) black holes are typically observed in non-thermal emission, caused by highly-relativistic electrons. Here, we study the interrelation between three-dimensional (special) relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-20 Ravi Pratap Dubey , Christian Fendt , Bhargav Vaidya

Microquasars occasionally exhibit massive jet ejections which are distinct from the continuous or quasi-continuous weak jet ejections. Because those massive jet ejections are rare and short events, they have hardly been observed in X-ray so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Kotani , S. A. Trushkin , R. Valiullin , K. Kinugasa , S. Safi-Harb , N. Kawai , M. Namiki

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of weak jets that we launch into a core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) ejecta half an hour after the explosion and find that the interaction of the fast jets with the CCSN ejecta creates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

The death of massive stars is accompanied by the formation of central and accreting compact objects and the subsequent launch of relativistic jets. However, not all jets successfully drill their way out of the stellar envelope. Unsuccessful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 Matteo Pais , Angela Zegarelli , Silvia Celli , Enrico Peretti

The high kinetic energy outflowing in the jets of microquasars is delivered to the surrounding interstellar medium. This energy input can cause the formation of bow shocks and cocoons that may be detectable from radio to gamma-ray energies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Bordas , V. Bosch-Ramon , J. M. Paredes , M. Perucho

We consider the shock structures that can arise in blazar jets as a consequence of variations in the jet flow velocity. There are two possible cases: (1) A double shock system consisting of both a forward and reverse shock (2) A single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. V. Bicknell , S. J. Wagner

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…

Core-collapse supernovae are found in galaxies with ongoing star-formation. In a starburst galaxy hosting an active galactic nucleus with a relativistic jet, supernovae can take place inside the jet. The collision of the supernova ejecta…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 F. L. Vieyro , V. Bosch-Ramon , N. Torres-Albà