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Interaction between a central outflow and a surrounding wind is common in astrophysical sources powered by accretion. Understanding how the interaction might help to collimate the inner central outflow is of interest for assessing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 R. Yurchak , A. Ravasio , A. Pelka , S. Pikuz , E. Falize , T. Vinci , M. Koenig , B. Loupias , A. Benuzzi-Mounaix , M. Fatenejad , P. Tzeferacos , D. Q. Lamb , E. G. Blackman

Jets from active galaxies propagate from the central black hole out to the radio lobes on scales of hundreds of kiloparsecs. The jets may encounter giant stars with strong stellar winds and produce observable signatures. For strong winds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-31 Martin Huarte-Espinosa , Eric G. Blackman , Alex Hubbard , Adam Frank

The jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of a magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and energy from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. V. E. Lovelace , P. R. Gandhi , M. M. Romanova

We present the results of a series of time-dependent numerical simulations of cold, magnetocentrifugally launched winds from accretion disks. Our simulations span four and half decades of mass loading; in the context of a disk with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeffrey M. Anderson , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Roger D. Blandford

The collision of magnetic reconnection jets is studied by means of a three dimensional numerical simulation at kinetic scale, in the presence of a strong guide field. We show that turbulence develops due to the jets collision producing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 F. Pucci , W. H. Matthaeus , A. Chasapis , S. Servidio , L. Sorriso-Valvo , V. Olshevsky , D. L. Newman , M. V. Goldman , G. Lapenta

We study the effect of radio-jet core shift, which is a dependence of the position of the jet radio core on the observational frequency. We derive a new method of measuring the jet magnetic field based on both the value of the shift and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Marek Sikora , Patryk Pjanka , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Jets and outflows are commonly observed in young stellar objects (YSOs), yet their origins remain debated. Using 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a circumstellar disk threaded by a large-scale open poloidal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Yisheng Tu , Zhi-Yun Li , Zhaohuan Zhu , Chun-Yen Hsu , Xiao Hu

We review advances in the theoretical and computational studies of disk winds, jets and outflows including: the connection between accretion and jets, the launch of jets from magnetized disks, the coupled evolution of jets and disks, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralph E. Pudritz , Rachid Ouyed , Christian Fendt , Axel Brandenburg

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 analytically and numerically study the hydrodynamic propagation of a precessing jet in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs) where the star's angular momentum is misaligned with the black hole spin. We assume that a geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Wenbin Lu , Tatsuya Matsumoto , Christopher D. Matzner

The role of kink instability in magnetically driven jets is explored through numerical one-dimensional steady relativistic MHD calculations. The instability is shown to have enough time to grow and influence the dynamics of Poynting-flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitrios Giannios , Henk C. Spruit

Recently, Allen et al. measured a tight correlation between the Bondi accretion rates and jet powers of the nuclei of nearby X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies. We employ two models of jet powering to understand the above correlation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

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

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Semi-analytical models of disk outflows have successfully described magnetically-driven, self-confined super-Alfv\'enic jets from near Keplerian accretion disks. These Jet Emitting Disks are possible for high levels of disk magnetization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 J. Jacquemin-Ide , J. Ferreira , G. Lesur

The magnetic flux distribution is determined by the solution of the Grad-Shafranov equation. With differential rotation, i.e. the variation of the iso-rotation parameter, the shape of the light surface must be calculated in an iterative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Christian Fendt , Elisabetta Memola

Non-relativistic three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of Poynting flux dominated (PFD) jets are presented. Our study focuses on the propagation of strongly magnetized hypersonic, but sub-Alfv\'enic ($C^{2}_{\rm s} \ll…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Nakamura , David L. Meier

Many quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) appear in radio, optical, and X-ray maps, as a bright nuclear sources from which emerge single or double long, thin jets (Thomson et al., 1993). When observed with high angular resolution these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Based on a new approach on modeling the magnetically dominated outflows from AGNs (Li et al. 2006), we study the propagation of magnetic tower jets in gravitationally stratified atmospheres (such as a galaxy cluster environment) in large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Nakamura , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

We aim at analytically modelling the solar wind proton trajectories during their interaction with a partially ionised cometary atmosphere, not in terms of bulk properties of the flow but in terms of single particle dynamics. We first derive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 E. Behar , B. Tabone , M. Saillenfest , P. Henri , J. Deca , J. Lindkvist , M. Holmström , H. Nilsson