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Observations of accreting black holes often provoke suggestions that their jets precess. The precession is usually supposed to result from a combination of the Lense-Thirring effect and accretion disc viscosity. We show that this is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Nixon , Andrew King

The physical nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to involve an ultra-relativistic jet. The observed complex structure of light curves motivate the idea of jet precession. In this work, we study the gravitational waves of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mou-Yuan Sun , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

Jet precessions are widely involved in astrophysical phenomena from galaxies to X-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Polarization presents a unique probe of the magnetic fields in GRB jets. The precession of GRBs relativistic jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu

It has been observed that many relativistic jets display a kind of cork-screw-like precession. Numerical simulations has suggested that such kind of precession may originate from the precession of the disk. In this work, we introduce an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Ye Shen , Bin Chen

We show that the observational data of extragalactic radio sources tend to support the theoretical relationship between the jet precession period and the optical luminosity of the sources, as predicted by the model in which an accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ju-Fu Lu , Bo-Yan Zhou

A model of jet precession driven by a neutrino-cooled disc around a spinning black hole is present in order to explain the temporal structure and spectral evolution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The differential rotation of the outer part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tong Liu , En-Wei Liang , Wei-Min Gu , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zi-Gao Dai , Ju-Fu Lu

We analytically and numerically study the hydrodynamic propagation of a precessing jet in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs) where the star's angular momentum is misaligned with the black hole spin. We assume that a geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Wenbin Lu , Tatsuya Matsumoto , Christopher D. Matzner

The precession phenomenon of the jet in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a key probe of the physics of the central engine. Previous studies generally assumed a fixed precession period when analysing the temporal profiles in GRBs; however, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Yun-Peng Li , Da-Bin Lin , Guo-Yu Li , En-Wei Liang

Black-hole driven relativistic astrophysical jets, such as blazars and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), are powerful sources of electromagnetic radiation. Their emission is powered by some energy dissipation and particle acceleration mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Dimitrios Giannios , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Astrophysical jets are often observed as bent or curved structures. We also know that the different jet sources may be binary in nature, which may lead to a regular, periodic motion of the jet nozzle, an orbital motion or precession. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Christian Fendt , Melis Yardimci

We review recent observations of circularly polarized radiation from AGN made with the VLBA and with the ATCA. We also discuss briefly the detections of the Galactic sources Sag A* and SS433. The origin of the circular polarization is still…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John F. C. Wardle , Daniel C. Homan

Here, we demonstrate that polarization properties show a wide diversity depending on viewing angles. To simulate images of a supermassive black hole and surrounding plasma, we performed a full-polarimetric general relativistic radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-25 Yuh Tsunetoe , Shin Mineshige , Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Kazunori Akiyama , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

For many astrophysical sources with jets, there is evidence for the contemporaneous presence of disks. In contrast, pulsars such as the Crab and Vela show jets but have not yet revealed direct evidence for accretion disks. Here we show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric G. Blackman , Rosalba Perna

Despite being hard to measure, GRB prompt $\gamma$-ray emission polarization is a valuable probe of the dominant emission mechanism and the outflow's composition and angular structure. During the prompt emission the outflow is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Pawan Kumar

It is likely that the disk of a tidal disruption event (TDE) is misaligned with respect to the equatorial plane of the spinning supermassive black hole (SMBH), since the initial stellar orbit before disruption is most likely has an inclined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Hao-Yu Yuan , Hong-Zhou Wu , Wei-Hua Lei

Jet precession is sometimes invoked to explain asymmetries in radio galaxy (RG) jets and "X/S/Z-shape" radio galaxies, caused by the presence of a binary black hole companion to the source active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-08 Chris Nolting , Jay Ball , Tri M. Nguyen

The nearby radio galaxy M87 offers a unique opportunity to explore the connections between the central supermassive black hole and relativistic jets. Previous studies of the inner region of M87 revealed a wide opening angle for the jet…

Polarization observations provide a unique way to probe the nature of jet magnetic fields in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Currently, some GRBs have been detected to be polarized in their early optical afterglows. However, the measured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu , Guo-Yu Li

Observations of accreting black hole (BH) systems, such as microquasars and supermassive black holes, often reveal a precessing jet with changing directions, indicating a misaligned accretion flow relative to the BH spin. The precession is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Dong Lai , Indu K. Dihingia , Christian M. Fromm

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. Part of the stellar material falls toward the black hole, forming an accretion disk that in some cases launches a relativistic jet. We performed…

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