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Two types of relativistic jets are suggested to form near accreting black holes: a potentially ultrarelativistic Poynting-dominated jet and a Poynting-baryon jet. One source of jet matter is electron-positron pair production, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan C. McKinney

We use moment formalism of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics to obtain equations of motion of radial jets and solve them using polytropic equation of state of the relativistic gas. We consider curved space-time around black holes and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Mukesh K. Vyas , Indranil Chattopadhyay

To investigate the formation mechanism of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei and micro-quasars, we have developed a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code in Kerr geometry. Here we report on the first numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shinji Koide , David L. Meier , Kazunari Shibata , Takahiro Kudoh

Accreting black holes produce collimated outflows, or jets, that traverse many orders of magnitude in distance, accelerate to relativistic velocities, and collimate into tight opening angles. Of these, perhaps the least understood is jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera B. Markoff

We present a detailed numerical study of the dynamics and evolution of ultrarelativistic magnetohydrodynamic jets in the black hole-disk system under extreme magnetization conditions. We find that Lorentz factors of up to 3000 are achieved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Fendt , Rachid Ouyed

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Improved observational precision in relativistic jets has underscored the need for tractable theoretical models. In this study, we construct a semi-analytical hybrid jet model that incorporates both black hole-driven and disk-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yu Song , Yehui Hou , Lei Huang , Bin Chen

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Relativistic jets are observed throughout the Universe, strongly impacting their surrounding environments on all physical scales, from Galactic binary systems to galaxies and galaxy clusters. An important avenue to understand the formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 J. van den Eijnden , N. Degenaar , T. D. Russell , R. Wijnands , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , G. R. Sivakoff , J. V. Hernández Santisteban

We apply a two-zone MHD model to the jet of M87. The model consists of an inner relativistic outflow, which is surrounded by a non-relativistic outer disk-wind. The outer disk-wind collimates very well through magnetic self-collimation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Gracia , K. Tsinganos , S. V. Bogovalov

We analyzed the results of non-linear resistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of jet formation to study the acceleration mechanism of axisymmetric, resistive MHD jets. The initial state is a constant angular momentum, polytropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kuwabara , K. Shibata , T. Kudoh , R. Matsumoto

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to power various multi-wavelength emission signatures from neutron stars and black holes. Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) offers the simplest model of reconnection. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 B. Ripperda , M. P. Grehan , A. Moran , S. Selvi , L. Sironi , A. Philippov , A. Bransgrove , O. Porth

Relativistic jets from black holes can extract energy not only from accretion but also directly from the black hole's spin, as described by the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. A longstanding question is whether magnetic flux can accumulate near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Antonios Nathanail

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

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

A new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code ``RAISHIN'' used to simulate jet generation by rotating and non-rotating black holes with a geometrically thin Keplarian accretion disk finds that the jet develops a spine-sheath…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Philip Hardee , Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

One of the most interesting high-energy, astrophysical phenomena are relativistic jets emitted from highly localized sky location. Such jets are common in Nature, observed to high redshift and in a range of wavelengths. Their precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-02 Nicolas Yunes

Relativistic jets accompany the collapse of massive stars, the merger of compact objects, or the accretion of gas in active galactic nuclei. They carry information about the central engine and generate electromagnetic radiation. No…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Xiaoyi Xie , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam

We have performed several simulations of black hole systems (non-rotating, black hole spin parameter a=0.0 and rapidly rotating, a=0.95) with a geometrically thin Keplerian disk using the newly developed RAISHIN code. The simulation results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Shinji Koide , Philip Hardee , Gerald J. Fishman

We present results from axisymmetric, time-dependent hydrodynamical (HD) and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of a gaseous envelope collapsing onto a black hole (BH). We consider gas with so small angular momentum that after an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Proga