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We study the two-dimensional, time-dependent MHD of radiation-driven winds from luminous accretion disks initially threaded by a purely axial magnetic field. The radiation force is mediated primarily by spectral lines. We use ideal MHD to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga

We perform local, vertically stratified shearing-box MHD simulations of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) at a fiducial radius of 1 AU that take into account the effects of both Ohmic resistivity and ambipolar diffusion (AD). The magnetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

The structure and magnitude of the electromagnetic field produced by a rotating accretion disk around a black hole were determined. The disk matter is assumed to be a magnetized plasma with a frozenin poloidal magnetic field. The vacuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Shatskiy

We present the first collisionless realization of two-dimensional axisymmetric black hole accretion consistent with a persistent magnetically arrested disk state. The accretion flow, consisting of an ion-electron disk plasma combined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Jesse Vos , Benoit Cerutti , Monika Moscibrodzka , Kyle Parfrey

We construct a simple model for stationary, axisymmetric black-hole magnetospheres, in which the poloidal magnetic field is generated by a toroidal electric current in a thin disk with the inner edge, by solving the vacuum Maxwell equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Akira Tomimatsu , Masaaki Takahashi

Protoplanetary discs (PPDs) are cold, dense and weakly ionised environments that witness the planetary formation. Among these discs, transition discs (TDs) are characterised by a wide cavity in the dust and gas distribution. Despite this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Étienne Martel , Geoffroy Lesur

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

Strong magnetic fields play a crucial role in the removal of angular momentum from collapsing clouds and protostellar discs and are necessary for the formation of disc winds as well as jets from the inner disc and indeed, strong large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan Braithwaite

We analyze data from a standard 3D general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulation, focusing on equatorial slices in order to examine the details and the evolution of the azimuthal structure of the accreting matter. During flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Argyrios Loules , Antonios Nathanail , Ioannis Contopoulos

Black holes attract gaseous material from the surrounding environment. Cosmic plasma is largely ionized and magnetized because of electric currents flowing in the highly conductive environment near black holes; the process of accretion then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-01 Vladimir Karas , Kostas Sapountzis , Agnieszka Janiuk

In the context of star and planet formation, understanding the formation of disks is of fundamental importance. Previous studies found that the magnetic field has a very strong impact on the collapse of a prestellar cloud, particularly in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Hennebelle , A. Ciardi

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in an accretion disc is an important problem because it determines the launching of winds and the feasibility of the magnetorotational instability to generate turbulence or channel…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Philip K. C. Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The main aim of this paper is studying the effect of toroidal magnetic field on the structure of Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows (ADAF) in the presence of the turbulence viscosity and diffusivity due to viscosity and magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Amin Mosallanezhad , Shahram Abbassi , Nasim Beiranvand

We investigate the role of magnetic fields in the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs using 3D global ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations performed with the "phantom" smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. For initially toroidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Duncan Forgan , Daniel J. Price , Ian Bonnell

(Abridged) We study the dynamical evolution of a stationary, axisymmetric, and perfectly conducting cold accretion disk containing a large-scale magnetic field around a Kerr black hole, trying to understand the relation between accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

Giant protoplanets evacuate a gap in their host protoplanetary disc, which gas must cross before it can be accreted. A magnetic field is likely carried into the gap, potentially influencing the flow. Gap crossing has been simulated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sarah L. Keith , Mark Wardle

We perform the first suite of fully general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of spinning massive black hole binary mergers. We consider binary black holes with spins of different magnitudes aligned to the orbital angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-04 Federico Cattorini , Bruno Giacomazzo , Francesco Haardt , Monica Colpi

We obtained steady solutions of optically thin, single temperature, magnetized black hole accretion disks assuming thermal bremsstrahlung cooling. Based on the results of 3D MHD simulations of accretion disks, we assumed that the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Oda , M. Machida , K. E. Nakamura , R. Matsumoto

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism for transportation of angular momentum and dissipation of energy within hot, ionized accretion discs. This instability is produced through the interactions of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Oscar M. Pimentel , P. Chris Fragile , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Bridget Ierace , Deepika Bollimpalli

Accretion discs properties should deviate from standard theory when magnetic pressure exceeds the thermal pressure. To quantify these deviations, we present a systematic study of the dynamical properties of magnetically arrested discs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-26 Nicolas Scepi , Mitchell C. Begelman , Jason Dexter