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Variability of radio-emitting active galactic nuclei can be used to probe both intrinsic variations arising from shocks, flares, and other changes in emission from regions surrounding the central supermassive black hole, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-21 Hayley Bignall , Steve Croft , Talvikki Hovatta , Jun Yi Koay , Joseph Lazio , Jean-Pierre Macquart , Cormac Reynolds

We study how jets driven by active galactic nuclei influence the cooling flow in Perseus-like galaxy cluster cores with idealised, non-relativistic, hydrodynamical simulations performed with the Eulerian code ATHENA using high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Davide Martizzi , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Drummond Fielding

A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

Two-dimensional turbulence in a rectangular domain self-organises into large-scale unidirectional jets. While several results are present to characterize the mean jets velocity profile, much less is known about the fluctuations. We study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-23 Cesare Nardini , Tomás Tangarife

We present a study of variability time scales in a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei at several frequencies between 4.8 and 230 GHz. We investigate the differences of various AGN types and frequencies and correlate the measured time…

Radial gradients of the brightness temperatures along the parsec-scale jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be used to infer the energy balance and to estimate the parameter range of physical conditions in these regions. In this paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-03 E. V. Kravchenko , I. N. Pashchenko , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. B. Pushkarev , E. Ros , T. Savolainen

We present estimates of the angular power spectra of the synchrotron radiation intensity fluctuations at 6 and 20 cm for the shell type supernova remnant Cas A and the filled-centre Crab supernova remnant. We find that the intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-23 Nirupam Roy , Somnath Bharadwaj , Prasun Dutta , Jayaram N. Chengalur

Relativistic jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are highly energetic and emit radiation across a wide range of frequencies. Despite several observational studies, their particle composition still remains a key open question. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Harshita Bhuyan , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt , Aditya Sharma

In this paper three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of AGN jets are presented to investigate the FR I/FR II dichotomy. Three simulations are presented which illustrates the difference in morphology for high/low Lorentz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Izak P. van der Westhuizen , Brian van Soelen , Petrus J. Meintjes , James H. Beall

This study employs three-dimensional particle-resolved simulations of planar shocks passing through a suspension of stationary solid particles to study wake-induced gas-phase velocity fluctuations, termed pseudo-turbulence. Strong coupling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-07 Archana Sridhar , Rodney O. Fox , Jesse Capecelatro

The dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks is of key interest for building a comprehensive theory of planet formation and to explain the observational properties of these objects. Using the magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++, with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Fulvia Pucci , Kengo Tomida , James Stone , Shinsuke Takasao , Hantao Ji , Shoichi Okamura

The $\alpha$ turbulent viscosity formalism for accretion discs must be interpreted as a mean field theory. The extent to which the disc scale exceeds that of the turbulence determines the precision of the predicted luminosity $L_\nu$. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric G. Blackman

We present a framework to link and describe AGN variability on a wide range of timescales, from days to billions of years. In particular, we concentrate on the AGN variability features related to changes in black hole fuelling and accretion…

In an effort to explain the short-timescale variability of the broad, double-peaked profiles of some active galactic nuclei, we constructed stochastically perturbed accretion disk models and calculated H alpha line profile series as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Helene M. L. G. Flohic , Michael Eracleous

AGN, powered by accretion onto SMBHs, are thought to be scaled up versions of Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs). In the past few years evidence of such correspondence include similarities in the broadband shape of the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Gonzalez-Martin , S. Vaughan

Aperiodic optical variability is a common property of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), though its physical origin is still open to question. To study the origin of the optical -- ultraviolet variability in AGN, we compare light curves of two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Kawaguchi , S. Mineshige , M. Umemura , E. L. Turner

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities are common in astrophysical systems, ranging from jet black holes up to protoplanetary accretion disk. An astrophysical object with strong characteristics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is Caraguejo…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-19 P. Freitas-Lemes , I. Rodrigues , M. Faúndez-Abans

Small-scale fluctuations of different tracers of the interstellar the medium can be used to study the nature of turbulence in astrophysical scales. Of these, the `continuum' emission traces the fluctuations integrated along the line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a relativistic jet oriented toward the observer. This jet is composed of accelerated particles which can display emission over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Spectral variability has been…

As shown by broad-band observations, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are characterized by a broken power-law spectrum of synchrotron emission. Based on the modern magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence theories, we investigate the re-acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Siyao Xu , Noel Klingler , Oleg Kargaltsev , Bing Zhang