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We theoretically investigate the magnetic flux transport in geometrically thick accretion discs which may form around black holes. We utilize a two-dimensional (2D) kinematic mean-field model for poloidal field transport which is governed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Ryoya Yamamoto , Shinsuke Takasao

Astrophysical jets are launched from strongly magnetized systems that host an accretion disk surrounding a central object. Here we address the question how to generate the accretion disk magnetization and field structure required for jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-07 Giancarlo Mattia , Christian Fendt

Many accreting systems are modeled as geometrically thin disks. Simulations of accretion disks cannot be extended to this regime, although local models can address the behavior of narrow annuli. A global model needs to account for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Yossef Zenati , Ethan T. Vishniac , Amir Jafari

We reconsider the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes. In contrast with previous work we take into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

A large body of theoretical and computational work shows that jets - modelled as magnetized disk winds - exert an external torque on their underlying disks that can efficiently remove angular momentum and act as major drivers of disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ralph E. Pudritz , Robi Banerjee

A review is made of recent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory and simulations of origin of jets from accretion disks. Many compact astrophysical objects emit powerful, highly-collimated, oppositely directed jets. Included are the extra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysical accretion discs, and in the interstellar and intergalactic medium. They drive jets, suppress fragmentation in star-forming clouds and can have a significant impact on the accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Christoph Federrath

Magnetic fields are fundamental to the dynamics of both accretion disks and the jets that they often drive. We review the basic physics of these phenomena, the past and current efforts to model them numerically with an emphasis on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 John F. Hawley , Christian Fendt , Martin Hardcastle , Elena Nokhrina , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We consider the radial buoyancy of vertical magnetic field lines in radiation and gas pressure dominated accretion disks. We find that in addition to radial drift driven by turbulent diffusion and biased by the global field geometry, there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Seok Jae Park , Ethan T. Vishniac

We show that accretion disks with magnetic fields in them ought to make jets provided that their electrical conductivity prevents slippage and there is an ambient pressure in their surroundings. We study equilibria of highly wound magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D Lynden-Bell

We review recent observational and theoretical results on the relationship between circumstellar accretion disks and jets in young stellar objects. We then present a theoretical framework that interprets jets as accretion-powered,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arieh Konigl , Ralph E. Pudritz

The jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of the magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and energy from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-01-30 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

The acceleration of an outflow along inclined magnetic field lines emanating from an accretion disc can be studied in the local approximation, as employed in the computational model known as the shearing box. By including the slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gordon I. Ogilvie

The magnetic field in an accretion disk is estimated assuming that all of the angular momentum within prescribed accretion disk radii is removed by a jet. The magnetic field estimated at the base of the jet is extrapolated to the blazar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Jianke Li

Jetted astrophysical phenomena with black hole (BH) engines, including binary mergers, jetted tidal disruption events, and X-ray binaries, require a large-scale vertical magnetic field for efficient jet formation. However, a dynamo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , François Rincon , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Matthew Liska

The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate the vertical magnetic field in the centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Activity of the nuclei of galaxies and stellar mass systems involving disk accretion to black holes is thought to be due to (1) a small-scale turbulent magnetic field in the disk (due to the magneto-rotational instability or MRI) which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 R. V. E. Lovelace , D. M. Rothstein , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We report new global ideal MHD simulations for thin accretion disks (with thermal scale height H/R=0.1 and 0.05) threaded by net vertical magnetic fields. Our computations span three orders of magnitude in radius, extend all the way to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone

We investigate the launching of jets and outflows from magnetically diffusive accretion disks. Using the PLUTO code we solve the time-dependent resistive MHD equations taking into account the disk and jet evolution simultaneously. The main…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Christian Fendt , Oliver Porth , Bhargav Vaidya , Jamshid Ghanbari

The structure and magnitude of the electric field created by a rotating accretion disk with a poloidal magnetic field is found for the case of a vacuum approximation along the axis. The accretion disk is modeled as a torus filled with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Shatskiy , N. S. Kardashev