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Recent advances in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic modeling of jets offer unprecedented insights into the inner workings of accreting black holes that power the jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and other accretion systems. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

We explore the formation, energetics, and geometry of relativistic jets along with the variability of their central engine. We study both fast and slowly rotating black holes and address our simulations to active galaxy (AGN) centers and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 A. Janiuk , B. James

We present a new, semi-analytic formalism to model the acceleration and collimation of relativistic jets in a gravitational potential. The gravitational energy density includes the kinetic, thermal, and electromagnetic mass contributions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Polko , David L. Meier , Sera Markoff

Plasmas of geometrically thick, black hole (BH) accretion flows in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are generally collisionless for protons, and involve magnetic field turbulence. Under such conditions a fraction of protons can be accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara

Fast magnetic reconnection events can play an important role in accretion disk systems. A potential model to explain the non-thermal very-high-energy (VHE) emission (from GeV to TeV) observed in black-hole binaries (BHBs) and Active Galatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Luís H. S. Kadowaki , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Tania E. Medina-Torrejón

It is generally accepted that the launching of astrophysical jets requires a large-scale magnetic field threading a central object (black hole or star) and/or its surrounding accretion disc. However, the collimation mechanism far away from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Thomas Jannaud , Jonathan Ferreira , Claudio Zanni

Aims. The collimation of relativistic jets in galaxies is a poorly understood process. Detailed radio studies of the jet collimation region have been performed so far in few individual objects, providing important constraints for jet…

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

A common consequence of accretion onto black holes is the formation of powerful, relativistic jets that escape the system. In the case of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies this has been known for decades, but for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-11 D. M. Russell , R. P. Fender

We perform two-dimensional, axisymmetric, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the collapse of a rotating star of 40 Msun and in the light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray burst. Considering two distributions of angular momentum, up to…

The formation of jets in black hole accretion systems is a long-standing problem. It has been proposed that a jet can be formed by extracting the rotation energy of the black hole ("BZ-jet") or the accretion flow ("disk-jet"). While both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Hui Li , Yosuke Mizuno , Fan Guo , Rusen Lu , Luis C. Ho , Jieshuang Wang

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

We present the results of nine simulations of radiatively-inefficient magnetically arrested disks (MADs) across different values of the black hole spin parameter $a_*$: $-0.9$, $-0.7$, $-0.5$, $-0.3$, 0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9. Each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Ramesh Narayan , Andrew Chael , Koushik Chatterjee , Angelo Ricarte , Brandon Curd

We use a sample of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with measured black hole masses to explore the jet formation mechanisms in these sources. Based on the K\"{o}nigl's inhomogeneous jet model, the jet parameters, such as the bulk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Bo Chai , Xinwu Cao , Minfeng Gu

We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Porth , C. Fendt

We discuss the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes, taking into account the non-uniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-07 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , A. S. Klepnev , R. V. E. Lovelace

A black hole (BH) travelling through a uniform, gaseous medium is described by Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion. If the medium is magnetized, then the black hole can produce relativistic outflows. We performed the first 3D,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Nicholas Kaaz , Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Relativistic jets are launched from black hole (BH) X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei when the disk accretion rate is below a certain limit (i.e., when the ratio of the accretion rate to the Eddingtion accretion rate, $\dot{m}$, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-16 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

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

Accretion of black holes at near-Eddington or super-Eddington rates is the most powerful episode that drives black hole growth, and it may work in several types of objects. However, the physics of accretion and jet-disc coupling in such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-23 Xiaolong Yang , Su Yao , Luigi C. Gallo , Jun Yang , Luis C. Ho , Minfeng Gu , Willem A. Baan , Jiri Svoboda , Ran Wang , Xiang Liu , Xiaoyu Hong , Xue-Bing Wu , Wei Zhao