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Protostellar jets and winds are probably driven magnetocentrifugally from the surface of accretion disks close to the central stellar objects. The exact launching conditions on the disk, such as the distributions of magnetic flux and mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Roger D. Blandford

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

The theory of magnetically accelerated outflows and jets from accretion disks is reviewed at an introductory level, with special attention to problem areas like the launching conditions of the flow at the disk surface, stability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. Spruit

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

A large body of theoretical and computational work shows that jets - modelled as magnetized disk winds - exert an external torque on their underlying disks that can efficiently remove angular momentum and act as major drivers of disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ralph E. Pudritz , Robi Banerjee

We have performed 3-D numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet experiments to study the instabilities associated with strongly toroidal magnetic fields and determine if such magnetic configurations in jets are as unstable as similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Thomsen , A. Nordlund

We find that the cold gas can be magnetically launched from the disc surface with the help of the radiation pressure if the angular velocity of the radiation pressure dominated accretion disc is greater than a critical value, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinwu Cao

We present numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a magnetized accretion disk launching trans-Alfvenic jets. These simulations, performed in a 2.5 dimensional time-dependent polytropic resistive MHD framework, model a resistive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabien Casse , Rony Keppens

We follow numerically the time evolution of axisymmetric outflows driven magneto-centrifugally from the inner portion of accretion disks, from their launching surface to large, observable distances. Special attention is paid to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Roger D. Blandford

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

We present the first-ever simulations of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stellar magnetospheric winds coupled with disc-driven jets where the resistive and viscous accretion disc is self-consistently described. These innovative MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 Z. Meliani , F. Casse , C. Sauty

We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Porth , C. Fendt

We review the current theoretical models of the inward advection of the large scale external magnetic fields in accretion discs. The most plausible theories for launching astrophysical jets rely on strong magnetic fields at the inner parts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Amir Jafari

Semi-analytical models of disk outflows have successfully described magnetically-driven, self-confined super-Alfv\'enic jets from near Keplerian accretion disks. These Jet Emitting Disks are possible for high levels of disk magnetization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 J. Jacquemin-Ide , J. Ferreira , G. Lesur

Large scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk is a key ingredient in the jet formation model. The most attractive scenario for the origin of such a large scale field is the advection of the field by the gas in the accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

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

The theory of jet emitting disks (JEDs) provides a mathematical framework for a self-consistent treatment of steady-state accretion and ejection. A large-scale vertical magnetic field threads the accretion disk where magnetic turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 N. Zimniak , J. Ferreira , J. Jacquemin-Ide

We present magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a resistive accretion disk continuously launching transmagnetosonic, collimated jets. We time-evolve the full set of magnetohydrodynamic equations, but neglect radiative losses in the energetics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabien Casse , Rony Keppens

We present a detailed physical analysis of the jet launching mechanism of a circum-stellar disk that is located in a binary system. Applying 3D resistive MHD simulations, we investigate the local and global properties of the system, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Christian Fendt

Recent numerical simulations and analytical models of magnetically collimated plasma outflows from a uniformly rotating central gravitating object and/or a Keplerian accretion disk have shown that relatively low mass and magnetic fluxes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Bogovalov , K. Tsinganos