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The paradigm in which magnetic fields play a crucial role in launching/collimating outflows in many astrophysical objects continues to gain support. However, semi-analytical models including the effect of magnetic fields on the dynamics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Chiara Ceccobello , Yuri Cavecchi , Martin H. M. Heemskerk , Sera Markoff , Peter Polko , David L. Meier

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

Recent observations of Galactic Black Hole Candidates (BHCs) suggest that those that are superluminal jet sources have more rapid black hole spin rates than otherwise normal BHCs. This provides observational support for models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shinji Koide , David L. Meier , Kazunari Shibata , Takahiro Kudoh

Employing 3D GRMHD simulation, we study the images of a geometrically thin jet, whose emissions concentrate on its surface, for accretion system surrounding a central spinning BH. By introducing a strong magnetic field, we observe three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Ye Shen , Yehui Hou , Zhong-Ying Fan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We present a novel spectral solver for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on dynamical spacetimes. By combining a high order discontinuous spectral method on mapped Chebyshev Fourier grids, our scheme attains exponential convergence.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Beibei Li

We present a new, approximate method for modelling the acceleration and collimation of relativistic jets in the presence of gravity. This method is self-similar throughout the computational domain where gravitational effects are negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Polko , David L. Meier , Sera Markoff

The formation of jets in black hole accretion systems is a long-standing problem. It has been proposed that a jet can be formed by extracting the rotation energy of the black hole ("BZ-jet") or the accretion flow ("disk-jet"). While both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Hui Li , Yosuke Mizuno , Fan Guo , Rusen Lu , Luis C. Ho , Jieshuang Wang

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

In paper I, we showed that time-dependent general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical models of accretion disks, although being highly turbulent, have surprisingly simple electromagnetic properties. In particular, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

We present results of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations investigating the launching of jets and outflows from a magnetically diffusive accretion disk. The time evolution of the disk structure is self-consistently taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt

We have performed numerical simulations of weakly and strongly magnetized relativistic jets embedded in a weakly and strongly magnetized stationary or mildly relativistic (0.5c) sheath using the RAISHIN code. In the numerical simulations a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Mizuno , P. Hardee , K. -I. Nishikawa

Simulating accretion and feedback from the horizon scale of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out to galactic scales is challenging because of the vast range of scales involved. Elaborating on H. Cho et al., we describe and test a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Kung-Yi Su , Ramesh Narayan , Priyamvada Natarajan

We present results from the first fully general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of an equal-mass black hole binary (BHBH) in a magnetized, circumbinary accretion disk. We simulate both the pre and post-decoupling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-04 Brian D. Farris , Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro

Numerical simulations of weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized relativistic jets embedded in a weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized stationary or weakly relativistic (v = c/2) sheath have been performed. A magnetic field parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yosuke Mizuno , Philip Hardee , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

We perform three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a near-maximally spinning black hole (spin parameter, a = 0.998) with varying initial magnetic field geometries, systematically exploring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We report the results of 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a jet formation by the interaction between an accretion disk and a large scale magnetic field. The disk is not treated as a boundary condition but is solved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kigure , K. Shibata

The general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations are widely used to study accretion disk and jet dynamics around a black hole. Despite strong observational evidences for intrinsically nonlinear behavior, the interpretations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Srishty Aggarwal , Rohan Raha , Mayank Pathak , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Prevalent around luminous accreting black holes, thin discs are challenging to resolve in numerical simulations. When the disc and black hole angular momentum vectors are misaligned, the challenge becomes extreme, requiring adaptive meshes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis

This work summarizes a program intended to unify three burgeoning branches of the high-energy astrophysics of relativistic jets: general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of ever-increasing dynamical range, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-15 Richard Anantua , Roger Blandford , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Improved observational precision in relativistic jets has underscored the need for tractable theoretical models. In this study, we construct a semi-analytical hybrid jet model that incorporates both black hole-driven and disk-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yu Song , Yehui Hou , Lei Huang , Bin Chen