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We perform GR-MHD simulations of outflow launching from thin accretion disks. As in the non-relativistic case, resistivity is essential for the mass loading of the disk wind. We implemented resistivity in the ideal GR-MHD code HARM3D,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Christos Vourellis , Christian Fendt , Qian Qian , Scott Noble

We investigate the launching mechanism of relativistic jets from black hole sources, in particular the strong winds from the surrounding accretion disk. Numerical investigations of the disk wind launching - the simulation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Qian Qian , Christian Fendt , Christos Vourellis

We report on a global, three-dimensional GRMHD simulation of an accretion torus embedded in a large scale vertical magnetic field orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole. This simulation investigates how a large scale vertical field evolves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Kris Beckwith , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

We review some recent results of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations considering the evolution of geometrically thin disks around a central black hole. Thin disk GR-MHD simulations complement the widely used MAD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Indu K. Dihingia , Christian Fendt

The recent imaging of the M87 black hole at millimeter wavelengths by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has triggered a renewed interest in numerical models for the accretion of magnetized plasma in the regime of general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Tomei , L. Del Zanna , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

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

We present the first kinematic study of an $\alpha\Omega$-dynamo in the General Relativistic Magneto-HydroDynamics (GRMHD) regime, applied to thick disks orbiting around Kerr black holes and using a fully covariant mean field dynamo closure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Bugli , L. Del Zanna , N. Bucciantini

We present MHD simulations exploring the launching, acceleration and collimation of jets and disk winds. The evolution of the disk structure is consistently taken into account. Extending our earlier studies, we now consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt , Somayeh Sheikhnezami

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

We present a comprehensive analysis of four near-Eddington black hole accretion models computed by solving the GRMHD equations with full radiation transport. This study focuses on the dynamical effects of magnetic field topology and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen , Christopher J. White

We present global 3D GRMHD simulations of black hole (BH) accretion disks designed to investigate how MRI-driven dynamo action regulates jet formation and evolution. Unlike standard SANE/MAD setups that impose a coherent large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 P. S. Santhiya , Pallavi Bhat , Prayush Kumar , Tushar Mondal , Indu K. Dihingia

We present a comprehensive analysis of super-Eddington black hole accretion simulations that solve the GRMHD equations coupled with angle-discretized radiation transport. The simulations span a range of accretion rates, two black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Christopher J. White , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen

We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

A selection of results from the general relativistic MHD accretion simulations described in the previous talk are presented. We find that the magnetic field strength increases sharply with decreasing radius and is also enhanced near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Krolik , S. Hirose

We present results from two long-duration GRMHD simulations of advection-dominated accretion around a non-spinning black hole. The first simulation was designed to avoid significant accumulation of magnetic flux around the black hole. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski , Robert F. Penna , Akshay K. Kulkarni

With the fundamental stress mechanism of accretion disks identified--correlated MHD turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability--it has become possible to make numerical simulations of accretion disk dynamics based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 J. H. Krolik

We present a sub-grid model that emulates the magnetic dynamo operating in magnetized accretion disks. We have implemented this model in the general relativisic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) code \koral, using results from local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , David Abarca , Yucong Zhu , Jonathan C. McKinney

Relativistic jets and disc-winds are typically observed in BH-XRBs and AGNs. However, many physical details of jet launching and the driving of disc winds from the underlying accretion disc are still not fully understood. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Indu K. Dihingia , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

The episodic dynamics of the magnetic eruption of a spinning black hole (BH) accretion disks and its associated intense shapeup of their jets is studied via three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 Akira Mizuta , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Toshiki Tajima , Shigehiro Nagataki

Accreting black holes (BHs) launch relativistic collimated jets, across many decades in luminosity and mass, suggesting the jet launching mechanism is universal, robust and scale-free. Theoretical models and general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. T. P. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , E. Quataert
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