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In this work we numerically calculate the thermal radiation efficiency of the baryonic outflow. The possible outflow acceleration in the transparent stage, which lowers thermal radiation efficiency, has been taken into account. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Yi-Zhong Fan

An exact model for magnetized and rotating outflows, underpressured at their axis, is analysed by means of a nonlinear separation of the variables in the two-dimensional governing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations for axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Sauty , E. Trussoni , K. Tsinganos

We study relativistic magnetized outflows using relativistic equation of state having variable adiabatic index ($\Gamma$) and composition parameter $(\xi)$. We study the outflow in special relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic regime, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Kuldeep Singh , Indranil Chattopadhyay

We explore photospheric emissions from stratified two-component jets, wherein a highly relativistic spine outflow is surrounded by a wider and less relativistic sheath outflow. Thermal photons are injected in regions of high optical depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki , Masaomi Ono , Shiu-Hang Lee , Jirong Mao , Shoichi Yamada , Asaf Pe'er , Akira Mizuta , Seiji Harikae

Radiatively inefficient, hot accretion flows are widely considered as a relevant accretion mode in low-luminosity AGNs. We study spectral formation in such flows using a refined model with a fully general relativistic description of both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-07 Andrzej Niedzwiecki , Fu-Guo Xie , Agnieszka Stepnik

By performing 2.5-dimensional special relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we study the super-critical accretion disks and the outflows launched via the radiation force. We find that the outflow is accelerated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga

It is shown that an ultrarelativistic shock with the Lorentz factor of order of tens or higher propagating in a moderately dense interstellar medium (density above $\sim 1000 $ cm$^{-3}$) undergoes a fast dramatic transformation into a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris E. Stern

Relativistic outflows in the form of jets are common in many astrophysical objects. By their very nature, jets have angle dependent velocity profiles, Gamma = Gamma(r, theta, phi), where Gamma is the outflow Lorentz factor. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Christoffer Lundman , Asaf Pe'er , Felix Ryde

We study the spectra of photospheric emission from highly relativistic gamma-ray burst outflows using a Monte Carlo (MC) code. We consider the Comptonization of photons with a fast cooled synchrotron spectrum in a relativistic jet with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-26 Mukul Bhattacharya , Wenbin Lu , Rodolfo Santana , Pawan Kumar

(short version) - A model for GRMHD disk outflows with neutrino-driven mass ejection is developed,and employed to calculate the structure of the outflow in the sub-slow magnetosonic region and the mass loading of the outflow, under…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amir Levinson

The inner region of a luminous accretion disk is radiation pressure dominated. We estimate the surface temperature of a radiation pressure dominated accretion disk, \Theta=(c_s/r\Omega_K)^2<<(H/r)^2, which is significantly lower than that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Xinwu Cao

We present the first general relativistic hydrodynamic models of the launch and evolution of relativistic jets and winds, driven by thermal energy deposition, possibly due to neutrino-antineutrino annihilation, in the close vicinity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. A. Aloy , H. -T. Janka , E. Mueller

We present an analytical model for describing highly relativistic acceleration of magnetically driven jets, within the framework of ideal MHD for cold, stationary and axisymmetric outflows. Our novel procedure is to treat the wind equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Akira Tomimatsu , Masaaki Takahashi

GRB 160625B is an extremely-bright outburst with well-monitored afterglow emission. The geometry-corrected energy is high up to $\sim 5.2\times10^{52}$ erg or even $\sim 8\times 10^{52}$ erg, rendering it the most energetic GRB prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Yuan-Zhu Wang , Hao Wang , Shuai Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Hao-Ning He , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The variety of gamma-ray burst phenomenology could be largely attributable to differences in the opening angle of an isotropic outflow or to a standard type of event viewed from different orientations. Motivated by this currently popular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

In view of the recent Fermi observations of GRB prompt emission spectra, we develop a theory of photosphere emission of a hybrid relativistic outflow with a hot fireball component (defined by dimensionless entropy $\eta$) and a cold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 He Gao , Bing Zhang

An X-ray short burst associated with a Galactic fast radio burst was observed in 2020, distinguished by its X-ray cut-off energy significantly exceeding that of other X-ray short bursts. X-ray photons of these short bursts are believed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Tomoki Wada , Katsuaki Asano

We discuss the propagation of radiative MHD jets and outflows focusing on outflows driven by magneto-centrifugal rotators. Our goal is to link the properties of the jets with the physics of the sources which produce them. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Frank , Thomas A. Gardiner , Thibaut Lery

The extreme hypothesis that essentially all types of ultrarelativistic outflow -- specifically AGN jets, pulsar wind nebulae and GRB --are electromagnetic, rather than gas dynamical, phenomena is considered. Electromagnetic flows are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. D. Blandford

We study the spectrum of high frequency radiation emerging from mildly dissipative photospheres of long-duration gamma-ray burst outflows. Building on the results of recent numerical investigations, we assume that electrons are heated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Davide Lazzati , Mitchell C. Begelman