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Matter accreting onto black holes has long been known to have standing or oscillating shock waves. The post-shock matter puffs up in the form of a torus, which intercepts soft photons from the outer Keplerian disc and inverse Comptonizes to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Santabrata Das , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The evolution of powerful extragalactic jets is not only interesting by itself, but also for its impact on the evolution of the host galaxy and its surroundings. We have performed long-term axisymmetric numerical simulations of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Manel Perucho , José María Martí , Vicent Quilis , Elena Ricciardelli

Most of the electromagnetic output of blazars (BL Lac objects and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars) comes out in the gamma-ray band, making the Large Area Telescope [0.1-100 GeV] onboard the Fermi satellite and the Cherenkov telescopes crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Ghisellini

Using our new 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code parallelized with MPI, we investigated long-term particle acceleration associated with a relativistic electron-positron jet propagating in an unmagnetized ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 K. -I. Nishikawa , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , B. Zhang , P. Hardee , Y. Mizuno , A. Nordlund , J. Frederiksen , H. Sol , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartmann , J. F. Fishman

Spinning supermassive black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) magnetically launch relativistic collimated outflows, or jets. Without angular momentum supply, such jets are thought to perish within $3$ orders of magnitude in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Haocheng Zhang

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 present magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a resistive accretion disk continuously launching transmagnetosonic, collimated jets. We time-evolve the full set of magnetohydrodynamic equations, but neglect radiative losses in the energetics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabien Casse , Rony Keppens

A self-similar solution for the 3D axi-symmetric radiative MHD equations, which revisits the formation and acceleration of accretion-powered jets in AGNs and microquasars, is presented. The model relies primarily on electromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Hujeirat , R. Blandford

Theoretical models for the production of relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei predict that jet power arises from the spin and mass of the central black hole, as well as the magnetic field near the event horizon. The physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , A. Celotti , T. Sbarrato

Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by accretion of matter onto super massive black holes. While the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic…

We calculate the temporal evolution of distributions of relativistic electrons subject to synchrotron and adiabatic processes and Fermi-like acceleration in shocks. The shocks result from Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the jet. Shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Micono , N. Zurlo , S. Massaglia , A. Ferrari , D. B. Melrose

We interpret the rapid correlated UV/optical/ X-ray variability of XTE J1118+480 as a signature of the coupling between the X-ray corona and a jet emitting synchrotron radiation in the optical band. We propose a scenario in which the jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 Julien Malzac , Andrea Merloni , Andrew C. Fabian

We present numerical simulation of bulk Lorentz factor of relativistic electron positron jet driven by Compton rocket effect from accretion disk radiation. The plasma is assumed to have a power-law energy distribution and is continuously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Renaud , G. Henri

In certain scenarios, the accreted angular momentum of plasma onto a black hole could be low; however, how the accretion dynamics depend on the angular momentum content of the plasma is still not fully understood. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We use the observed jet boundary transition from parabolic to conical shape, which was earlier discovered as possibly a common effect in active galactic nuclei, to estimate a black hole, a jet and an ambient medium parameters. We explained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-23 E. E. Nokhrina , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev

In this paper, steady-state MHD calculations of non-relativistic magnetized accretion discs driving jets are presented. For the first time, an energy equation describing the effects of entropy generation along streamlines is included. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabien Casse , Jonathan Ferreira

Observations of accreting black holes often provoke suggestions that their jets precess. The precession is usually supposed to result from a combination of the Lense-Thirring effect and accretion disc viscosity. We show that this is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Nixon , Andrew King

The problem of Astrophysical Jet formation from relativistic accretion disks through the establishment of relativistic disk-powerful jet equilibrium structure is studied applying the Beltrami-Bernoulli equilibrium approach of Shatashvili &…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 E. Katsadze , N. Revazashvili , N. L. Shatashvili

The inner region of a luminous accretion disk is radiation pressure dominated. We estimate the surface temperature of a radiation pressure dominated accretion disk, \Theta=(c_s/r\Omega_K)^2<<(H/r)^2, which is significantly lower than that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Xinwu Cao

Qualitatively new aspects of the (linear and non-linear) stability of sheared relativistic (slab) jets are analyzed. The linear problem has been solved for a wide range of jet models well inside the ultrarelativistic domain (flow Lorentz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Manuel Perucho , Michal Hanasz , Jose-Maria Marti , Juan-Antonio Miralles