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The massive binary common envelope (CE) phase plays a pivotal role in the formation of close black hole/neutron star (BH/NS) binaries, yet significant uncertainties remain in our understanding of this process. In this study, we aim to…

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We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity (GRMHD) of a binary black hole-neutron star on a quasicircular orbit that undergoes merger. The binary mass ratio is 3:1, the black hole initial spin parameter $a/m=0.75$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vasileios Paschalidis , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

The mechanism by which outflows and plausible jets are driven from black hole systems, still remains observationally elusive. Notwithstanding, several observational evidences and deeper theoretical insights reveal that accretion and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The observable characteristics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are mainly determined by the jet propagation within the disk. In the massive collapsar scenario, we consider that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang

We model interaction with the surrounding medium of the main discrete jet ejection in the accreting black-hole binary MAXI J1348--630. The kinetic energy in the ejection of that jet was estimated before to be $>10^{46}$ erg. That energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Marek Sikora , Michal Szanecki , Markus Boettcher

Tidal disruption of main sequence stars by black holes has generally been thought to lead to a signal dominated by UV emission. If, however, the black hole spins rapidly and the poloidal magnetic field intensity on the black hole horizon is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Julian H. Krolik , Tsvi Piran

We study the spherical accretion of magnetized plasma with low angular momentum onto a supermassive black hole, utilizing global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Black hole-driven feedback in the form of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Alisa Galishnikova , Alexander Philippov , Eliot Quataert , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

We study time-dependent relativistic jets under the influence of radiation field of the accretion disk. The accretion disk consists of an inner compact corona and an outer sub-Keplerian disk. The thermodynamics of the fluid is governed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-31 Raj Kishor Joshi , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay

We interpret the rapid correlated UV/optical/ X-ray variability of XTEJ1118+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 and…

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

Jets emanating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent some of the most formidable particle accelerators in the universe, thereby emerging as viable candidates responsible for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Olmo Piana , Hung-Yi Pu

Episodic ejections of blobs (episodic jets) are widely observed in black hole sources and usually associated with flares. In this paper, by performing and analyzing three dimensional general relativity magnetohydrodynamical numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Miljenko Cemeljic , Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Hsien Shang

Black hole accretion and jet production are areas of intensive study in astrophysics. Recent work has found a relation between radio luminosity, X-ray luminosity, and black hole mass. With the assumption that radio and X-ray luminosity are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Kayhan Gultekin , Edward M. Cackett , Jon M. Miller , Tiziana Di Matteo , Sera Markoff , Douglas O. Richstone

Super-Eddington accretion is one scenario that may explain the rapid assembly of $\sim 10^9\rm\, M_\odot$ supermassive black holes (BHs) within the first billion year of the Universe. This critical regime is associated with radiatively…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Warren Massonneau , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Ricarda S. Beckmann

We have performed a fully three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of jet formation from a thin accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole with a free-falling corona. The initial simulation results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. -I. Nishikawa , G. Richardson , S. Koide , K. Shibata , T. Kudoh , P. Hardee , G. J. Fishman

In the course of its evolution, a black hole (BH) accretes gas from a wide range of directions. Given a random accretion event, the typical angular momentum of an accretion disc would be tilted by $\sim$60$^\circ$ relative to the BH spin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 M. Liska , C. Hesp , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis , S. B. Markoff

Most powerful jets are observed to emanate from accreting black hole systems. Recent quasi-stationary radiative MHD calculations reveal that jet-launching start in the innermost region of a transition layer (:TL), which is located between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hujeirat

We investigate the energetics of the jet and X-ray corona of Cyg X-1. We show that the current estimates of the jet power obtained from Halpha and [O III] measurements of the optical nebula surrounding the X-ray source allow one to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Julien Malzac , Renaud Belmont , Andrew C. Fabian

We present a model for launching relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) from an accreting Kerr black hole (BH) as an effect of the rotation of the space-time, where the gravitational energy of the accretion disc inside the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-26 Ioana Dutan

We study the similarities of jet-medium interactions in several quite different astrophysical systems using 2D and 3D hydrodynamical numerical simulations, and find many similarities. The systems include cooling flow (CF) clusters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Noam Soker , Muhammad Akashi , Avishai Gilkis , Shlomi Hillel , Oded Papish , Michael Refaelovich , Danny Tsebrenko

Using Chandra X-ray observations of 9 nearby, X-ray luminous ellipticals with good optical velocity dispersion measurements, we show that a tight correlation exists between the Bondi accretion rates calculated from the X-ray data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 S. W. Allen , R. J. H. Dunn , A. C. Fabian , G. B. Taylor , C. S. Reynolds