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Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) are often associated with the collapse of stripped-envelope massive stars. Powerful relativistic jets drill through the stellar envelope before the gamma emission. Previous hydrodynamical studies imposed jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Gerardo Urrutia , Agnieszka Janiuk , Hector Olivares

I have developed two numerical codes to investigate the dynamics of collapsars. One is two-dimensional MHD code that are performed using the Newtonian (ZEUS-2D) code where realistic equation of state, neutrino cooling and heating processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-06 S. Nagataki

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) require an engine capable of driving a jet of plasma to ultrarelativistic bulk Lorentz factors of up to several hundred and into narrow opening angles of a few degrees. We use global axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-29 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

In this letter we briefly describe the first results of our numerical study on the possibility of magnetic origin of relativistic jets of long duration gamma ray bursters within the collapsar scenario. We track the collapse of massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Barkov , S. S. Komissarov

Long gamma-ray bursts (lGRB) are produced by relativistic jets arising from the collapse of massive stars. Such progenitor environments present complex physical conditions that are challenging to model by numerical simulations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Gerardo Urrutia , Agnieszka Janiuk

We present time-dependent axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interaction of a relativistic magnetized wind produced by a proto-magnetar with a surrounding stellar envelope, in the first $\sim 10$ seconds after core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson

We have performed 2.5-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the gravitational collapse of a magnetized rotating massive star as a model of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). The current calculation focuses on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosuke Mizuno , Shoichi Yamada , Shinji Koide , Kazunari Shibata

In this study we explore the magnetic mechanism of hypernovae and relativistic jets of long duration gamma ray bursts within the collapsar scenario. This is an extension of our earlier work [1]. We track the collapse of massive rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

Growing observational evidence supports the proposition that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered by relativistic jets from massive helium stars whose cores have collapsed to black holes and an accretion disk (collapsars). We model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weiqun Zhang , S. E. Woosley

We present our numerical results of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse of rotating massive stars in light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Pushed by recent evolution calculations of GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-02 Seiji Harikae , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We present a relativistic-MHD numerical study of axisymmetric, magnetically driven jets with parameters applicable to gamma-ray burst (GRB) flows. We also present analytic expressions for the asymptotic jet shape and other flow parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Serguei Komissarov , Nektarios Vlahakis , Arieh Konigl , Maxim Barkov

We have performed 2.5-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the gravitational collapse of a magnetized rotating massive star as a model of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). This simulation showed the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosuke Mizuno , Shoichi Yamada , Shinji Koide , Kazunari Shibata

We have carried out 2D and 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of jets launched self-consistently from accretion disks orbiting Kerr black holes and applied the results to the inner engine of the collapsar model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Pierre De Villiers , Jan Staff , Rachid Ouyed

We perform general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of binary neutron stars in quasi-circular orbit that merge and undergo delayed or prompt collapse to a black hole (BH). The stars are irrotational and modeled using an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

Relativistic, magnetized jets are observed to propagate to very large distances in many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We use 3D relativistic MHD (RMHD) simulations to study the propagation of Poynting flux-driven jets in AGN. These jets are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiaoyue Guan , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally related to the core-collapse of massive stars. In the collapsar scenario, a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a hyperaccretion disk has been considered as one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Mei Du , Shuang-Xi Yi , Tong Liu , Cui-Ying Song , Wei Xie

Accreting black holes (BHs) launch relativistic collimated jets, across many decades in luminosity and mass, suggesting the jet launching mechanism is universal, robust and scale-free. Theoretical models and general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. T. P. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , E. Quataert

We investigate the launching mechanism of relativistic jets from black hole sources, in particular the strong winds from the surrounding accretion disk. Numerical investigations of the disk wind launching - the simulation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Qian Qian , Christian Fendt , Christos Vourellis

Relativistic jets naturally occur in astrophysical systems that involve accretion onto compact objects, such as core collapse of massive stars in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and accretion onto supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Omer Bromberg , Alexander Tchekhovskoy
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