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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

The evolution of an initially stellar dipole type magnetosphere interacting with an accretion disk is investigated using numerical ideal MHD simulations. The simulations follow several 1000 Keplerian periods of the inner disk. The initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ch. Fendt

We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

Conversion of gravitational energy into radiation in accretion discs and the origin of large scale magnetic fields in astrophysical rotators have often been distinct topics of research. In semi-analytic work on both problems it has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Eric G. Blackman

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

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

Relativistic jets and disc-winds are typically observed in BH-XRBs and AGNs. However, many physical details of jet launching and the driving of disc winds from the underlying accretion disc are still not fully understood. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Indu K. Dihingia , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

We present global 3D GRMHD simulations of black hole (BH) accretion disks designed to investigate how MRI-driven dynamo action regulates jet formation and evolution. Unlike standard SANE/MAD setups that impose a coherent large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 P. S. Santhiya , Pallavi Bhat , Prayush Kumar , Tushar Mondal , Indu K. Dihingia

We study the H$\alpha$ emission from jets using two-dimensional axisymmetrical simulations. We compare the emission obtained from hydrodynamic (HD) simulations with that obtained from magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. The magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabio De Colle , Alejandro Raga

We investigate the formation of an ideal magnetized jet that originates from a disk acting as a boundary by conducting axisymmetric MHD simulations. Our simulations demonstrate that the magnetized jet is consistently launched and reaches a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Mostafa Sepahvand

Large-scale magnetic fields are relevant for a number of dynamical processes in accretion disks, including driving turbulence, reconnection events, and launching outflows. Numerical simulations have indicated that the initial strengths and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Hongzhe Zhou , Yosuke Mizuno , Zhenyu Zhu

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

The acceleration of an outflow along inclined magnetic field lines emanating from an accretion disc can be studied in the local approximation, as employed in the computational model known as the shearing box. By including the slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gordon I. Ogilvie

In a comprehensive convergence study, we investigate the computational conditions necessary to resolve disk formation and jet-launching processes, and analyze possible caveats. We explore the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) processes of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Anders Kölligan , Rolf Kuiper

The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate the vertical magnetic field in the centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Accretion disc turbulence along with its effect on large-scale magnetic fields plays an important role in understanding disc evolution in general, and the launching of astrophysical jets in particular. Motivated by enabling a comprehensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Oliver Gressel , Martin E. Pessah

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabien Casse , Zakaria Meliani , C. Sauty

Using axisymmetric MHD simulations we investigate how the overall jet formation is affected by a variation in the disk magnetic flux profile and/or the existence of a central stellar magnetosphere. Our simulations evolve from an initial,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Fendt

We carried out 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic diffusivity on magnetically driven mass accretion and jet formation. We found that (1) when the normalized magnetic diffusivity, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kuwabara , K. Shibata , R. Matsumoto

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