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Observational and theoretical studies of extragalactic radio sources have suggested that an inhomogeneous environment may be responsible for observed arm length asymmetries of jets and the properties of extended emission line regions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-04 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause

We study the transport dynamics of momenta deposited from jets in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Assuming that the high-energy partons traverse expanding quark-gluon fluids and are subject to lose their energy and momentum, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-20 Yasuki Tachibana , Tetsufumi Hirano

We present a formalism of the dynamics of internal shocks in relativistic jets where the source has a time-dependent injection velocity and mass-loss rate. The variation of the injection velocity produces a two-shock wave structure, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Cantó , S. Lizano , M. Fernández-López , R. F. González , A. Hernández-Gómez

Recollimation is a phenomenon of particular importance in the dynamic evolution of jets and in the emission of high-energy radiation. Additionally, the full comprehension of this phenomenon provides insights into fundamental properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 A. Costa , G. Bodo , F. Tavecchio , P. Rossi , P. Coppi , A. Sciaccaluga , S. Boula

We present the results of relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of the collision of two dense shells in a uniform external medium, as envisaged in the internal shock model for BL Lac jets. The non-thermal radiation produced by highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Mimica , M. -A. Aloy , E. Mueller , W. Brinkmann

Over cosmic time, galaxies grow through the hierarchical merging of smaller galaxies. However, the bright region of the galaxy luminosity function is incompatible with the simplest version of hierarchical merging, and it is believed that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Y. Wagner , Geoffrey V. Bicknell

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Theodora Papavasileiou , Odysseas Kosmas , Ioannis Sinatkas

Jets from supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxy clusters are a potential candidate for moderating gas cooling and subsequent star formation through depositing energy in the intra-cluster gas. In this work, we simulate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Rainer Weinberger , Kristian Ehlert , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

This study extends the 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a jet emerging from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger presented in Pavan et al. (2023), in which an incipient jet was manually injected into the realistic environment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Emma Dreas , Andrea Pavan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Annalisa Celotti

We simulate the evolution of relativistic electrons injected into the medium of a small galaxy cluster by a central radio galaxy, studying how the initial jet power affects the dispersal and the emission properties of radio plasma. By…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 F. Vazza , D. Wittor , L. Di Federico , M. Brüggen , M. Brienza , G. Brunetti , F. Brighenti , T. Pasini

We present 2D axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations investigating the long term effect of FR II radio galaxies on the metal distribution of the surrounding intra-cluster medium (ICM). A light jet is injected into a cooling flow atmosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David Heath , Martin Krause , Paul Alexander

The association of GRB170817A with GW170817 has confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are the progenitors of at least some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). This connection has ushered in an era in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna , Riccardo Ciolfi , Bruno Giacomazzo , Diego Lopez-Camara , Brian Morsony

We present a ballistic description of the propagation of the working surface of a relativistic jet. Using simple laws of conservation of mass and linear momentum at the working surface, we obtain a full description of the jet flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mendoza , J. C. Hidalgo

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 present the first general relativistic hydrodynamic models of the launch and evolution of relativistic jets and winds, driven by thermal energy deposition, possibly due to neutrino-antineutrino annihilation, in the close vicinity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. A. Aloy , H. -T. Janka , E. Mueller

We present the results of a series of 3D special relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet in a massive circumstellar medium (CSM) surrounding the progenitor star. Our simulations reproduce the jet morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Akihiro Suzuki , Christopher M. Irwin , Keiichi Maeda

There is now unequivocal evidence that the jets in FR I radio galaxies are initially relativistic, decelerating flows. On the assumption that they are axisymmetric and intrinsically symmetrical (a good approximation close to the nucleus),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-03 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

We have performed 2D hydrodynamic simulations of a pulsed astrophysical jet propagating through a medium that is populated with spherical inhomogeneities, or "clumps," which are smaller than the jet radius. The clumps are seen to affect the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kristopher Yirak , Adam Frank , Andrew Cunningham , Sorin Mitran

We analyze the interaction of a radiation-dominated jet and its surroundings using the equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the viscous limit. In a previous paper we considered the two-stream scenario, which treats the jet and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

In papers I and II in this series, we presented hydrodynamical simulations of jet models with parameters representative of the symbiotic system MWC 560. These were simulations of a pulsed, initially underdense jet in a high density ambient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Matthias Stute , Raghvendra Sahai