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The theory of magnetically accelerated outflows and jets from accretion disks is reviewed at an introductory level, with special attention to problem areas like the launching conditions of the flow at the disk surface, stability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. Spruit

Models predict that magnetic fields play a crucial role in the physics of astrophysical accretion disks and their associated winds and jets. For example, the rotation of the disk twists around the rotation axis the initially vertical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Francois Donati , Frederic Paletou , Jerome Bouvier , Jonathan Ferreira

The evolution of the magnetic field from the large-scale dynamo is considered a central feature of the accretion disk around a black hole. The resulting low-frequency oscillations introduced from the growth and decay of the field strength,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 J. Drew Hogg , Christopher Reynolds

The aberrated radiation pressure at the inner edge of the accretion disk around an astrophysical black hole imparts a relative azimuthal velocity on the electrons with respect to the ions which gives rise to a ring electric current that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ioannis Contopoulos , Antonios Nathanail , Matthaios Katsanikas

We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

We review the current status of studies on accretion and protoplanetary disks of young stars with large-scale magnetic fields. Observational data on magnetic fields of the disks are compiled and analysed. Modern analytical and numerical MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

The origin of cosmic magnetic (B) fields remains an open question. It is generally believed that very weak primordial B fields are amplified by dynamo processes, but it appears unlikely that the amplification proceeds fast enough to account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ioannis Contopoulos , Dimitris M. Christodoulou , Demosthenes Kazanas , Denise C. Gabuzda

The magnetically arrested disks (MADs) have attracted much attention in recent years. The formation of MADs are usually attributed to the accumulation of a sufficient amount of dynamically significant poloidal magnetic flux. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Jia-Wen Li , Xinwu Cao

We study the stability of poloidal magnetic fields anchored in a thin accretion disc. The two-dimensional hydrodynamics in the disc plane is followed by a grid-based numerical simulation including the vertically integrated magnetic forces.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Stehle , H. C. Spruit

Magnetically arrested accretion discs (MADs) around black holes (BH) have the potential to stimulate the production of powerful jets and account for recent ultra-high-resolution observations of BH environments. Their main properties are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Mitchell C. Begelman , Nicolas Scepi , Jason Dexter

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. V. E. Lovelace , P. R. Gandhi , M. M. Romanova

We address the role of large scale magnetic stress in the angular momentum transport, as well as the formation of different kinds of magnetic barrier in geometrically thick, optically thin, vertically averaged 1.5-dimensional advective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The origin of large scale magnetic fields in astrophysical rotators, and the conversion of gravitational energy into radiation near stars and compact objects via accretion have been subjects of active research for a half century.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Eric G. Blackman

This paper studies the response of a thin accretion disk to an external radial magnetic field. Our focus is on protoplanetary disks (PPDs), which are exposed during their later evolution to an intense, magnetized wind from the central star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Matthew Russo , Christopher Thompson

Protostellar jets and winds are probably driven magnetocentrifugally from the surface of accretion disks close to the central stellar objects. The exact launching conditions on the disk, such as the distributions of magnetic flux and mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Roger D. Blandford

We present an instability occurring in the inner part of disks threaded by a moderately strong vertical (poloidal) magnetic field. Its mechanism is such that a spiral density wave in the disk, driven by magnetic stresses (rather than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tagger , R. Pellat

Because the magneto-rotational instability is capable of exponentially amplifying weak preexisting magnetic fields, it might be hoped that the character of the magnetic field in accretion disks is independent of the nature of the seed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kris Beckwith , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Magnetic fields play a central role in accretion physics around black holes, yet their physical origin within accretion flows remains an open problem. In this work, we investigate the generation and subsequent evolution of magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Mukesh Kumar Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

We investigate the accretion-ejection process of jets from magnetized accretion disks. We apply a novel approach to the jet-launching problem in order to obtain correlations between the physical properties of the jet and the underlying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt

We present results of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations investigating the launching of jets and outflows from a magnetically diffusive accretion disk. The time evolution of the disk structure is self-consistently taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt