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Astrophysical jets are relativistic outflows that remain collimated for remarkably many orders of magnitude. Despite decades of research, the origin of cosmic rays (CRs) remains unclear, but jets launched by both supermassive black holes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Dimitrios Kantzas , Sera Markoff , Matteo Lucchini , Chiara Ceccobello , Koushik Chatterjee

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 K. -I. Nishikawa , M. Medvedev , B. Zhang , P. Hardee , J. Niemiec , A. Nordlund , J. Frederiksen , Y. Mizuno , H. Sol , G. J. Fishman

Extragalactic relativistic jets are engines able to carry out to large distances a huge amount of power, not only in the form of radiation, but especially in the form of kinetic energy of matter and fields. As such, they can be thought as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Ghisellini

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 study the effect of plasma composition on the dynamics and morphology of the relativistic astrophysical jets. Our work is based on a relativistic total variation diminishing (TVD) simulation code. We use a relativistic equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-08 Raj Kishor Joshi , Indranil Chattopadhyay

We present the results of three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of interaction of AGN jets with a dense turbulent two-phase interstellar medium, which would be typical of high redshift galaxies. We describe the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Ralph S. Sutherland , A. Y. Wagner

We study the efficiency of radiation in driving jets around black holes. Including general relativity for the radiation driving, we also show that the radiation field is affected by strong gravitational field in non linear manner, making…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Mukesh Kumar Vyas

Relativistic jets from (supermassive) black holes are typically observed in non-thermal emission, caused by highly-relativistic electrons. Here, we study the interrelation between three-dimensional (special) relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-20 Ravi Pratap Dubey , Christian Fendt , Bhargav Vaidya

The idea that the radio jets in AGN contain material in relativistic motion is supported by many lines of observational evidence, including morphology, brightness temperature estimated with interferometers and with intrinsic variations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Cohen , M. L. Lister , R. C. Vermeulen

Most of energy carried by relativistic AGN jets remains undetected until hundreds of kiloparsecs where interaction with intergalactic medium produces hot spots. The jet's hidden energy is only partially dissipated at smaller scales, from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Lyutikov , Vladimir I. Pariev , Denise C. Gabuzda

Relativistic jets can interact with the ambient gas distribution of the host galaxy, before breaking out to larger scales. In the past decade several studies have simulated jet-driven outflows to understand how they affect the nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Alexander Y. Wagner

Relativistic jets in Galactic superluminals and extragalactic AGN may be surrounded by a wind near to the central engine. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation reveal considerable stabilization of relativistic jet flow by a wind to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip E. Hardee , Philip A. Hughes

Nonthermal radiation observed from astrophysical systems containing relativistic jets and shocks, e.g., active galactic nuclei (AGNs), gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and Galactic microquasar systems usually have power-law emission spectra. Recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. -I. Nishikawa , Y. Mizuno , G. J. Fishman , P. Hardee

We have performed the first three-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of extragalactic jets of pure leptonic and baryonic plasma compositions propagating into a hydrostatic intracluster medium environment. The numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Eunwoo Choi

Relativistic jets associated with active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts propagate over huge distances without significant loss of momentum. At the same time they are bright emitters, which is indicative of strong energy dissipation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Kenji Toma , Serguei S. Komissarov , Oliver Porth

Relativistic jets, or highly collimated and fast-moving outflows, are endemic to many astrophysical phenomena. The jets produced by gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption events are accompanied by the accretion of material onto a black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

The energy budget of all known optical jets is discussed. It is found that to power the extended radio lobes of radio galaxies, the jet bulk motion on kpc scales must be relativistic, on average. Based on various constraints, a ``most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Riccardo Scarpa , C. Megan Urry

Through the modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of blazars we can infer the physical parameters required to originate the flux we see. Then we can estimate the power of blazar jets in the form of matter and fields. These estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Ghisellini

The structure of a relativistically hot, strongly magnetized jet is investigated at large distances from the source. Asymptotic equations are derived describing collimation and acceleration of the externally confined jet. Conditions are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuri Lyubarsky

We present a unique signal of jet-induced medium excitations: the enhancement of baryon-to-meson ratios around the quenched jets.To illustrate this, we study jet-particle correlations and the distributions of jet-induced identified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Ao Luo , Ya-Xian Mao , Guang-You Qin , En-Ke Wang , Han-Zhong Zhang