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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

The jets of active galactic nuclei can carry a large fraction of the accreted power of the black-hole system into interstellar and even extragalactic space. They radiate profusely from radio to X-ray and gamma-ray frequencies. In the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-15 A. P. Marscher

Relativistic plasma flows from the jets of black hole binary systems consist the environment of multiple particle production and radiation emission including neutrinos and gamma-rays. We implement a hadronic model based on $p-p$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Theodora V. Papavasileiou , Odysseas T. Kosmas , Ioannis Sinatkas

Accreting black holes produce powerful relativistic plasma jets which emit radiation across all observable wavelengths but the details of the initial acceleration and confinement of the jet are uncertain. We apply an innovative new model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

Magnetic fields connecting the immediate environs of rotating black holes to large distances appear to be the most promising mechanism for launching relativistic jets, an idea first developed by Blandford and Znajek in the mid-1970s. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 J. H. Krolik , J. Hawley

We have investigated magnetically driven superluminal jets originating from rotating black holes. The stationary, general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic wind equation along collimating magnetic flux surfaces has been solved numerically.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ch. Fendt , J. Greiner

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory revealed the high energy emission of some Active Galactic Nuclei called "Blazars"; few of them have also been observed by ground Cererenkov arrays. Those sources observed with Whipple Observatory emit gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pelletier , G. Henri

Supermassive black holes are found at the centers of most galaxies and their inspiral is a natural outcome when galaxies merge. The inspiral of these systems is of utmost astrophysical importance as prodigious producers of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling

About one thousand extragalactic large-scale jets are known, and a few tens of them are confirmed sources of infrared, optical, or X-ray photons. Multiwavelength emission comming directly from these outflows is always non-thermal in origin.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Stawarz

An ejection mechanism of relativistic jets from slim disks is studied. Since the radiation pressure is dominant in the slim disk, radiative energy flow arises along the pressure gradient in the vertical direction. The divergence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Hajime Inoue

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

Astrophysical jets, launched from the immediate vicinity of accreting black holes, carry away large amounts of power in a form of bulk kinetic energy of jet particles and electromagnetic flux. Here we consider a simple analytical model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Dominika Ł. Król , Łukasz Stawarz , Mitchell C. Begelman , José-María Martí , Manel Perucho , Bohdan A. Petrenko

There are now several types of relativistic flows in astrophysical settings. The foremost examples are jets and disks orbiting spinning black holes, pulsar winds and gamma ray bursts. As discussed at this meeting, these flows exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. Blandford

Relativistic jets are collimated plasma outflows with relativistic speeds. Astrophysical objects involving relativistic jets are a system comprising a compact object such as a black hole, surrounded by rotating accretion flows, with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-01 Yosuke Mizuno

The exact mechanism by which astrophysical jets are formed is still unknown. It is believed that necessary elements are a rotating (Kerr) black hole and a magnetised accreting plasma. We model the accreting plasma as a collection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-10 V. S. Semenov , S. A. Dyadechkin , M. F. Heyn

Relativistic outflows are a common phenomenon in accreting black holes. Despite the enormous differences in scale, stellar-mass black holes in binaries and supermassive black holes in Galactic Nuclei produce jets with analogous properties.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. F. Mirabel

We present a new type of observation relating the gravitational wave emission of supermassive black hole mergers to their electromagnetic counterparts. This dual emission involves variability of a relativistic jet arising from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 M. Tápai , L. Á. Gergely , Z. Keresztes , P. J. Wiita , Gopal-Krishna , P. L. Biermann

We use moment formalism of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics to obtain equations of motion of radial jets and solve them using polytropic equation of state of the relativistic gas. We consider curved space-time around black holes and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Mukesh K. Vyas , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Relativistic jets are one of the most powerful manifestations of the release of energy related to the supermassive black holes at the centre of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Their emission is observed across the entire electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-14 M. Orienti

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