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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

There is a broad consensus that accretion onto supermassive black holes and consequent jet formation power the observed emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, there has been less agreement about how jets form in accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Shane W. Davis , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The distinctive morphology of head-tail radio galaxies reveals strong interactions between the radio jets and their intra-cluster environment, the general consensus on the morphology origin of head-tail sources is that radio jets are bent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Zhaoming Gan , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Feng Yuan

Relativistic magnetized jets, originating near black holes, are observed to exhibit sub-structured flows. In this study, we present synthetic synchrotron emission signatures for different lines of sight and frequencies, derived from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Ravi Pratap Dubey , Christian Fendt , Bhargav Vaidya

Magnetorotational turbulence draws its energy from gravity and ultimately releases it via dissipation. However, the quantitative details of this energy flow have not been assessed for global disk models. In this work we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 E. R. Parkin

We discuss recent progress in understanding the launching of outflows/jets from the disc-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars. In most of the discussed models the interior of the disc is assumed to have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , P. Lii

In the solar atmosphere, the jets are ubiquitous and found to be at various spatia-temporal scales. They are significant to understand energy and mass transport in the solar atmosphere. Recently, the high-speed transition region jets are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Liping Yang , Hardi Peter , Jiansen He , Chuanyi Tu , Linghua Wang , Lei Zhang , Xueshang Feng

Astrophysical jets, launched from the immediate vicinity of accreting black holes, carry away large amounts of power in a form of bulk kinetic energy of jet particles and electromagnetic flux. Here we consider a simple analytical model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Dominika Ł. Król , Łukasz Stawarz , Mitchell C. Begelman , José-María Martí , Manel Perucho , Bohdan A. Petrenko

MHD jet equilibria that depend on source properties are obtained using a simplified model for stationary, axisymmetric and rotating magnetized outflows. The present rotation laws are more complex than previously considered and include a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thibaut Lery , Adam Frank

We search for signatures of magnetic flux cancellation in a 3D resistive MHD flux-emergence simulation of coronal jets and eruptions in a coronal-hole-like environment. To do this, we analysed the output from a 3D MHD simulation of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Spiros Patsourakos , Vasilis Archontis

Recent evidence of the phenomenal energetics involved in gamma ray burst events strongly suggests that the progenitor must efficiently convert gravitational binding energy into a moderately collimated outflow, possibly in the form of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael Angel Araya-Gochez

Jets and outflows are commonly observed in young stellar objects (YSOs), yet their origins remain debated. Using 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a circumstellar disk threaded by a large-scale open poloidal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Yisheng Tu , Zhi-Yun Li , Zhaohuan Zhu , Chun-Yen Hsu , Xiao Hu

We present three-dimensional MHD simulations of rotating radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes. In the simulations, we continuously inject magnetized matter into the computational domain near the outer boundary, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan , Marek A. Abramowicz

This is the fourth paper of our series of works studying winds from hot accretion flows around black holes. In the first two papers, we have shown the existence of strong winds in hot accretion flows using hydrodynamical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Ye-fei Yuan , Christopher J. White

Models invoking magnetic reconnection as the particle acceleration mechanism within relativistic jets often adopt a gradual energy dissipation profile within the jet. However, such a profile has yet to be reproduced in first-principles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Emma Kaufman , I. M. Christie , A. Lalakos , A. Tchekhovskoy , D. Giannios

We investigate the evolution of a disk wind into a collimated jet under the influence of magnetic diffusivity, assuming that the turbulent pattern in the disk will also enter the disk corona and the jet. Using the ZEUS-3D code in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Fendt , Miljenko Cemeljic

The zonal flow in Jupiter's upper troposphere is organized into alternating retrograde and prograde jets, with a prograde (superrotating) jet at the equator. Existing models posit as the driver of the flow either differential radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tapio Schneider , Junjun Liu

One of the major open questions related to the production of jets by accreting black holes is: why do sources with similar accretion powers produce so vastly different jet powers? What conditions are required to make a powerful jet? If jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Tuomas Savolainen , Wara Chamani

Relativistic AGN jets exhibit multi-timescale variability and a broadband non-thermal spectrum extending from radio to gamma-rays. These highly magnetized jets are prone to undergo several Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Sriyasriti Acharya , Nikhil S Borse , Bhargav Vaidya

In this fluid dynamics video, results from high fidelity numerical simulations are presented, which have been carried out to study the flow and droplet dynamics of liquid sheets formed by two impinging jets. A three-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Xiaodong Chen , Prashant Khare , Dongjun Ma , Vigor Yang