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We present a detailed numerical study of the dynamics and evolution of ultrarelativistic magnetohydrodynamic jets in the black hole-disk system under extreme magnetization conditions. We find that Lorentz factors of up to 3000 are achieved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Fendt , Rachid Ouyed

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (BHs) can launch relativistic jets that inject energy and momentum into their surroundings. Understanding how such feedback shapes large-scale accretion is key to bridging observations from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Elias R. Most , Bart Ripperda , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

Determining whether black hole jets are dominated by leptonic or baryonic matter remains an open question in high-energy astrophysics. We propose that extreme mass ratio binary (EMRB) black holes, where an intermediate mass secondary black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Hung-Yi Pu

Observational and theoretical studies point to microquasars (MQs) as possible counterparts of a significant fraction of the unidentified gamma-ray sources detected so far. At present, a proper scenario to explain the emission beyond soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bosch-Ramon , G. E. Romero , J. M. Paredes

We investigated the relation between compact jet emission and X-ray variability properties of all black hole transients with multiwavelength coverage during their outburst decays. We studied the evolution of all power spectral components…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Tolga Dincer , Emrah Kalemci , John A. Tomsick , Michelle M. Buxton , Charles D. Bailyn

(abridged) The connection between black hole, accretion disk, and radio jet can be best constrained by fitting models to observations of nearby low luminosity galactic nuclei, in particular the well studied sources Sgr~A* and M87. There has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-02 Monika Moscibrodzka , Heino Falcke , Hotaka Shiokawa

We present a feedback mechanism for supermassive black holes and their host bulges that operates during epochs of radio-loud quasar activity. In the radio cores of relativistic quasar jets, internal shocks convert a fraction of ordered bulk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-28 Lorenzo Sironi , Aristotle Socrates

Compact, continuously launched jets in black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) produce radio to optical-infrared synchrotron emission. In most BHXBs, an infrared (IR) excess (above the disc component) is observed when the jet is present in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Payaswini Saikia , David M. Russell , D. M. Bramich , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Maria Cristina Baglio , Nathalie Degenaar

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with extreme observation properties, which is caused by the beaming effect, expressed by a Doppler factor, in a relativistic jet. Doppler factor is an important parameter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Zhiyuan Pei , Junhui Fan , Jianghe Yang , Denis Bastieri

The fundamental plane for black hole activity constitutes a tight correlation between jet power, X-ray luminosity, and black hole mass. Under the assumption that a Blandford-Znajek-type mechanism, which relies on black hole spin,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 David Garofalo , Matthew I. Kim , Damian J. Christian

The jets of active galactic nuclei can carry a large fraction of the accreted power of the black-hole system into interstellar and even extragalactic space. They radiate profusely from radio to X-ray and gamma-ray frequencies. In the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-15 A. P. Marscher

The recent launch of Fermi / GLAST - coinciding with the MAXI workshop - opens a new era for studies of jet-dominated active galaxies, known as blazars. While the emission processes operating in various spectral bands in blazars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-13 Greg Madejski , Jun Kataoka , Marek Sikora

Since mid-2007 we have carried out a dedicated long-term monitoring programme at 15 GHz using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 meter telescope. One of the main goals of this programme is to study the relation between the radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , T. Hovatta , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , O. G. King , R. Reeves

An empirical relation between the broad line region (BLR) size and optical continuum luminosity is often adopted to estimate the BLR size and then the black hole mass of AGNs. However, optical luminosity may not be a good indicator of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xue-Bing Wu , R. Wang , M. Z. Kong , F. K. Liu , J. L. Han

The flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1510-089 is one of the most active blazars across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, displaying periods of flaring activity. This study explores its spectral variability over a decade. By employing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Alfredo Amador-Portes , Vahram Chavushyan , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez , José Ramón-Valdés

Relativistic outflows are common in accreting and forming black holes. Despite the enormous differences in scale, stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and supermassive black holes in Galactic Nuclei produce jets with analogous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. F. Mirabel

In this study we explore the magnetic mechanism of hypernovae and relativistic jets of long duration gamma ray bursts within the collapsar scenario. This is an extension of our earlier work [1]. We track the collapse of massive rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

Accreting black holes are responsible for producing the fastest, most powerful outflows of matter in the Universe. The formation process of powerful jets close to black holes is poorly understood, and the conditions leading to jet formation…

We examine the fundamental plane of 91 Blazars which include FSRQs and BL Lacs with known X-ray luminosity ($L_{R}$), radio luminosity ($L_X$), and black hole mass measurements ($M$) to reflect the relationship between jet and accretion for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Xu Zhang , Dingrong Xiong , Quangui Gao , Guiqin Yang , Fangwu Lu , Weiwei Na , Longhua Qin

Blazars radiate from relativistic plasma jets with bulk Lorentz factors {\Gamma} ~ 10, closely aligned along our line of sight. In a number of blazars of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar type such as 3C 454.3 and 3C 279 gamma-ray flares have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-22 Marco Tavani , Valerio Vittorini , Alfonso Cavaliere
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