English
Related papers

Related papers: Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning …

200 papers

Powerful relativistic jets are one of the main ways in which accreting black holes provide kinetic feedback to their surroundings. Jets launched from or redirected by the accretion flow that powers them should be affected by the dynamics of…

Super-Eddington accretion discs with 3 and 15 dot M_E around black holes with mass 10 M_sun are examined by two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical calculations extending from the inner disc edge to 5*10^4 r_g and lasting up to \sim 10^6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Okuda , V. Teresi , E. Toscano , D. Molteni

We investigate time-dependent inviscid hydrodynamical accretion flows onto a black hole using numerical simulations. We consider the accretion that consists of hot tenuous gas with low specific angular momentum and cold dense gas with high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Koji Nobuta , Tomoyuki Hanawa

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

Using Chandra X-ray observations of 9 nearby, X-ray luminous ellipticals with good optical velocity dispersion measurements, we show that a tight correlation exists between the Bondi accretion rates calculated from the X-ray data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 S. W. Allen , R. J. H. Dunn , A. C. Fabian , G. B. Taylor , C. S. Reynolds

The characteristic properties of blazars (rapid variability, strong polarization, high brightness) are widely attributed to a powerful relativistic jet oriented close to our line of sight. Despite the spectral energy distributions (SEDs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 E. J. D. Jolley , Z. Kuncic , G. V. Bicknell , S. Wagner

The correlation between the jet power and accretion disk luminosity is investigated for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) from the literature. The power-law correlation index is steep ($\mu \sim$ 1.0--1.4)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Xiang Liu , Zhenhua Han , Zhen Zhang

Jet origination is one of the most important questions of AGN, yet it stays obscure. In this work, we made use of information of emission lines, spectral energy distributions (SEDs), \textit{Fermi}-LAT $\gamma$-ray emission, construct a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Hubing Xiao , Zhihao OuYang , Lixia Zhang , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang , Xiangtao Zeng , Junhui Fan

We discuss the relation between the power carried by relativistic jets and the nuclear power provided by accretion, for a group of blazars including FSRQs and BL Lac objects. They are characterized by good quality broad band X-ray data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Laura Maraschi , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Disk accretion onto black holes is accompanied by collimated outflows (jets). In active galactic nuclei (AGN), the kinetic energy flux of the jet may exceed the bolometric luminosity of the disk a few orders of magnitude. This phenomena can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 S. V. Bogovalov

For all available pseudo-Schwarzschild potentials, we provide a non-self-similar model of coupled accretion-outflow system in connection to the Quasi Periodic Oscillation (QPO) of the black hole powered galactic microquasars and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tapas Kumar Das , A. R. Rao , Santosh V. Vadawale

We have not identified for sure what is the mechanism launching, accelerating and collimating relativistic jets. The two most likely possibilities are the gravitational energy of the accreting matter or the rotational energy of a spinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-21 Gabriele Ghisellini

It has long been suspected that black hole accretion-outflow coupling is invariant from the stellar to supermassive scales. Stellar mass black hole accretion flows are known to launch jets and outflows as they transition through critical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Adelle J. Goodwin , Andrew Mummery

The jet formation is thought to be closely connected with the mass of central supermassive black hole in Active Galactic Nuclei. The radio luminosity commonly used in investigating this issue is merely an indirect measure of the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi Liu , Dong Rong Jiang , Min Feng Gu

The extraction of rotational energy from a spinning black hole via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism has long been understood as an important component in models to explain energetic jets from compact astrophysical sources. Here we show more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 David Neilsen , Luis Lehner , Carlos Palenzuela , Eric W. Hirschmann , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , T. Garrett

The jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of the magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and energy from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-01-30 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

We consider an extreme case of disc accretion onto a gravitating centre when the viscosity in the disc is negligible. The angular momentum and the rotational energy of the accreted matter is carried out by a magnetized wind outflowing from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Sergei Bogovalov , Stanislav Kelner

The rotational energy of a black hole can be extracted via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism and numerical simulations suggest a strong dependence of the power of the produced jet on the black hole spin. A recent study has found no evidence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-21 Cosimo Bambi

Black hole systems with outflows are characterized by intrinsic physical quantities such as the outflow beam power, $L_j$, the bolometric accretion disk luminosity, $L_{bol}$, and black hole mass or Eddington luminosity, $L_{Edd}$. When…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Ruth. A. Daly , Douglas A. Stout , Jeremy N. Mysliwiec

(Abridged) We present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of slowly rotating gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole and is irradiated by a thin UV accretion disc and a spherical X-ray corona. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga