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This is the first paper in a series on event horizons in numerical relativity. In this paper we present methods for obtaining the location of an event horizon in a numerically generated spacetime. The location of an event horizon is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Joseph Libson , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , Paul Walker

In this Letter, we have developed a numerically efficient framework for evaluating parameters in metric theories of gravity, and applied it to constrain the horizon-scale magnetic field in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (Kerr-BR) spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Wentao Liu , Yang Liu , Di Wu , Yu-Xiao Liu

Merging binary neutron stars (BNSs) represent the ultimate targets for multimessenger astronomy, being among the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs), and, at the same time, likely accompanied by a variety of electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-02 Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Bruno Giacomazzo , Andrea Endrizzi , Daniel M. Siegel , Rosalba Perna

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of accreting black holes in the radiatively inefficient regime show that systems with sufficient magnetic poloidal flux become magnetically arrested disc (MAD) systems, with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Philip Mocz , Xinyi Guo

We present a new implementation of nuclear reaction networks in the \texttt{G}eneral-relativistic \texttt{mu}ltigrid \texttt{nu}merical (\texttt{Gmunu}) code, a framework for general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Christopher L. Fryer

We study synchrotron polarization in spatially resolved horizon-scale images, such as those produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In both general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations as well as simplified models of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 George N. Wong , Andrew Chael , Alexandru Lupsasca , Eliot Quataert

Radio observations of galaxy clusters show that the intra cluster medium is permeated by \mu G magnetic fields. The origin and evolution of these cosmological magnetic fields is currently not well understood and so their impact on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 David J. Barnes , Daisuke Kawata , Kinwah Wu

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

Relativistic jets from compact objects are ubiquitous phenomena in the Unvierse, but their driving mechanism has been an enigmatic issue over many decades. Two basic models have been extensively discussed: magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jets and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Takeuchi , K. Ohsuga , S. Mineshige

In this study, we develop a simplified magnetofluid model in the framework of GRMHD. We consider an ideal, adiabatic fluid composed of two components, ions and electrons, having a constant ratio between their temperatures. The flows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations are providing influential models for black hole spin measurements, gamma ray bursts, and supermassive black hole feedback. Many of these simulations use the same initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Robert F. Penna , Akshay Kulkarni , Ramesh Narayan

We adopt general relativistic ray-tracing (GRRT) schemes to study images of Kerr-MOG black holes surrounded by geometrically thick magnetized equilibrium tori, which belong to steady-state solutions of thick accretion disks within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-16 Zelin Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

The galaxy M 87 harbors a kiloparsec-scale relativistic jet, whose origin coincides with a supermassive black hole. Observational mm-VLBI campaigns are capable of resolving the jet-launching region at the scale of the event horizon. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-27 J. Davelaar , H. Olivares , O. Porth , T. Bronzwaer , M. Janssen , F. Roelofs , Y. Mizuno , C. M. Fromm , H. Falcke , L. Rezzolla

The 2017 detection of the in-spiral and merger of two neutron stars was a landmark discovery in astrophysics. We now know that such mergers are central engines of short gamma ray bursts and sites of r-process nucleosynthesis, where the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-11 Jonah M. Miller , Ben R. Ryan , Joshua C. Dolence

We present a set of simulations of relativistic jets from accretion disk initial setup with a new code in Fortran 90 to get numerical solutions of a system of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) partial differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-08 R. O. Garcia , S. R. Oliveira

A method for implementing cylindrical coordinates in the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code is described. The extension follows the approach of Athena's original developers and has been designed to alter the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron Skinner , Eve Ostriker

This work focuses on some key aspects of the General Relativistic (GR)-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) applications in High-Energy Astrophysics. We discuss the relevance of the GR-HD counterparts formulation exploring the geometrically thick disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-11 D. Pugliese , G. Montani

We present preliminary results in our long-term project of studying the evolution of matter in a dynamical spacetime. To achieve this, we have developed a new code to evolve axisymmetric initial data sets corresponding to a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Brandt , J. A. Font

We derived one-fluid equations based on a relativistic two-fluid approximation of e$^\pm$ pair plasma and electron-ion plasma to reveal the specific relativistic nature of their behavior. Assuming simple condition on the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-11 Shinji Koide