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A neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) is one of the plausible candidates for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two mechanisms, i.e., Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Tong Liu , Shu-Jin Hou , Li Xue , Wei-Min Gu

Black holes (BHs) hide themselves behind various astronomical phenomena, and their properties, i.e., mass and spin, are usually difficult to constrain. One leading candidate for the central engine model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) invokes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Tong Liu , Li Xue , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Fu-Wen Zhang , Bing Zhang

A variety of current models for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) suggest a common engine - a black hole of several solar masses accreting matter from a disk at a rate 0.01 to 10 solar masses per second. Using a numerical model for relativistic disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 Robert Popham , S. E. Woosley , Chris Fryer

Accreting black holes are known to power relativistic jets, both in stellar-mass binary systems and at the centres of galaxies. The power carried away by the jets, and hence the feedback they provide to their surroundings, depends strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-21 María Díaz Trigo , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Simone Migliari , Jess W. Broderick , Tasso Tzioumis

It is widely believed that relativistic jets in X-ray binaries and active-galactic nuclei are powered by the rotational energy of black holes. This idea is supported by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Michael O' Riordan , Asaf Pe'er , Jonathan C. McKinney

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified into long and short populations (i.e., LGRBs and SGRBs) based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration $T_{90}$. Multimessenger observations indicated that most SGRBs and LGRBs should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu

We consider the gamma ray burst (GRB) central engine that is powered by the collapse of a massive rotating star or compact binary merger. The engine is a hot and dense accretion disk, which is composed of free nucleons, electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-30 Agnieszka Janiuk

The emission from black hole binaries (BHBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) displays significant aperiodic variabilities. The most promising explanation for these variabilities is the propagating fluctuations in the accretion flow. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Da-Bin Lin , Zu-Jia Lu , Hui-Jun Mu , Tong Liu , Shu-Jin Hou , Jing Lv , Wei-Min Gu , En-Wei Liang

Hyperaccreting stellar-mass black hole systems are leading candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Their jets are thought to be powered by either the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process or neutrino-dominated accretion flows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Xue Zhang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Wei-Hua Lei , Tong Liu , Yu-Peng Yang , Ying Qin , Yan-Kun Qu , Qing-Wen Tang , Fa-Yin Wang

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

Neutrino-cooled accretion flow around a black hole, produced by a compact binary merger, is a promising scenario for jet formation and magnetic-driven winds to explain short duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) central engine and kilonovae…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-06 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk

We performed simulations of collapsars with different Kerr parameters a=0, 0.5, 0.9, 0.95. It is shown that a more rapidly rotating black hole is driving a more energetic jet. No jet is seen for the case of Schwartzschild black hole case,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Shigehiro Nagataki

The physical nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to involve an ultra-relativistic jet. The observed complex structure of light curves motivate the idea of jet precession. In this work, we study the gravitational waves of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mou-Yuan Sun , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

Relativistic jets originating from protomagnetar central engines can lead to long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and are considered potential sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and secondary neutrinos. We explore the propagation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-03 Mukul Bhattacharya , Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase , Shunsaku Horiuchi

Plasmas of geometrically thick, black hole (BH) accretion flows in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are generally collisionless for protons, and involve magnetic field turbulence. Under such conditions a fraction of protons can be accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara

Recently it has been observed that the scaling of jet power with black hole spin in galactic X-ray binaries is consistent with the predictions of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) jet model. These observations motivate us to revisit the BZ model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Robert F. Penna , Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski

A rotating black hole probably powers ultrarelativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts, relativistic jets from some active galactic nuclei, and jets from some black hole x-ray binaries. Prior estimates of the power output of a black hole have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan C. McKinney

The Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism in stellar-mass black hole (BH) hyperaccretion systems is generally considered to power gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Based on observational GRB data, we use the BZ mechanism driven by the BH hyperaccretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-07 Xiao-Yan Li , Tong Liu

Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations are performed using the ZEUS-2D code to investigate the dynamics of a collapsar that generates a GRB jet, taking account of realistic equation of state, neutrino cooling and heating processes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shigehiro Nagataki , Rohta Takahashi , Akira Mizuta , Tomoya Takiwaki

We propose a two-component jet model consistent with the observations of several gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The jet consists of inner and outer components, and they are supposed to be driven by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-16 Wei Xie , Wei-Hua Lei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Ding-Xiong Wang , Qingwen Wu , Jiu-Zhou Wang