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Matter accreting onto black holes may develop shocks due to the centrifugal barrier. A part of inflowing matter in the post-shock flow is deflected along the axis in the form of jets. Post-shock flow which behaves like a Compton cloud has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity of disk accretion onto nonspinning black hole binaries with mass ratio 36:29. We survey different disk models which differ in their scale height, total size and magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-27 Abid Khan , Vasileios Paschalidis , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

Axisymmetric accretion disks in vicinity of a central compact body are studied. In the case of non-viscous disk it is proven that all solutions for the midplane circular velocity are unstable. Hence, the pure hydrodynamic turbulence in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 V. S. Borisov

Despite the prevalence of jets in accreting systems and their impact on the surrounding medium, the fundamental physics of how they are launched and collimated is not fully understood. Radio observations of local compact objects, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Deanne L. Coppejans , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Elmar G. Koerding , Gregory R. Sivakoff , Michael P. Rupen

Many quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) appear in radio, optical, and X-ray maps, as a bright nuclear sources from which emerge single or double long, thin jets (Thomson et al., 1993). When observed with high angular resolution these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

In this letter, we investigate Bondi-like accretion flows with zero or low specific angular momentum by performing 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. In order to check if relativistic jets can be launched magnetically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Tom M. Kwan , Lixin Dai , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Twenty five years have passed by since models of accretions and jets have separately emerged. Today, it is understood that these two objects are related to each other in a fundamental way. In a binary system, matter from an accretion disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We explore the possibility of jet collisions with accreting tori orbiting around SMBHs. The analysis provides constraints on formation and the observational evidences of the host configurations. We use a GRHD model, investigating the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlik

In this review, I summarize the main X-ray/hard X-ray properties of the accretion flows around black holes and neutron stars based on recent broad-band spectral and timing observations performed by the BeppoSAX and Rossi X-ray Timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Didier Barret

High resolution radio imaging of AGN have revealed that some sources present motion of superluminal knots and transverse stratification of their jet. Recent observational projects have provided new observational constraints on the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Chantry , V. Cayatte , C. Sauty , N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos

In this paper we study the wind accretion onto a rotating black hole in the close binary system harboring a young massive star. It is shown that the angular momentum of the accreted stellar wind material is not sufficient for the formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim V. Barkov , Dmitry V. Khangulyan

Disk accretion may be the fundamental astrophysical process. Stars and planets form through the accretion of gas in a disk. Black holes and galaxies co-evolve through efficient disk accretion onto the central supermassive black hole.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-27 J. M. Miller , M. Nowak , K. Nandra , W. N. Brandt , G. Matt , M. Cappi , G. Risaliti , S. Kitamoto , F. Paerels , M. Watson , R. Smith , M. Weisskopf , Y. Terashima , Y. Ueda

A black hole (BH) travelling through a uniform, gaseous medium is described by Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion. If the medium is magnetized, then the black hole can produce relativistic outflows. We performed the first 3D,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Nicholas Kaaz , Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We study the radio galaxies with known redshift detected by the Fermi satellite after 10 years of data (4FGL-DR2). We use a one-zone leptonic model to fit the quasi-simultaneous multiwavelength data of these radio galaxies and study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaotong Guo

Jets are ubiquitous in astronomy. It has been conjectured that the existence of jets is intimately connected with the spin of the central object and the viscous angular momentum transport of the inner disk. Bipolar jet-like structures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Todd Williams

Here, we demonstrate that polarization properties show a wide diversity depending on viewing angles. To simulate images of a supermassive black hole and surrounding plasma, we performed a full-polarimetric general relativistic radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-25 Yuh Tsunetoe , Shin Mineshige , Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Kazunori Akiyama , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

We study the processes of particle acceleration which take place in the field of a rotating black hole as part of a mechanism of formation of galactic jets within the first parsec from the central source, where gravitation is supposed to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. de Felice , O. Zanotti

Jets and outflows are observed around a wide variety of accreting objects and seem to be a near-ubiquitous feature of accretion disks. Large-scale magnetic fields are thought to be necessary for jet formation in many systems, but a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 David M. Rothstein , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been of peak interest in the high-energy astrophysics community for their uniquely dynamic nature and incredible radiative power; emanating from supermassive black holes and similarly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Ronald S. Gamble

The hypothesis about the relation between the observed alignment of spots in the x-ray film in cosmic ray emulsion experiments and the features of events in which jets prevail at super high energies is tested. Due to strong dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 I. P. Lokhtin , A. K. Managadze , L. I. Sarycheva , A. M. Snigirev
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