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Gas giant planets are expected to accrete most of their mass via a circumplanetary disk. If the planet is unmagnetized and initially slowly rotating, it will accrete gas via a radially narrow boundary layer and rapidly spin up. Radial…

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We use axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the launching and collimation of jets emerging from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of accreting magnetized stars. Our analysis shows that the matter flows into the…

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An accretion flow onto a supermassive black hole is the primary process powering quasars. However, a geometry of this flow is not well constrained. Both global MHD simulations and observations suggest that there are several emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Aneta Siemiginowska

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

Relativistic magnetic reconnection studies have focused on symmetric configurations so far, where the upstream plasma has identical properties on each side of the layer. The boundary layer between a relativistic jet and an accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Enzo Figueiredo , Benoît Cerutti , John Mehlhaff , Nicolas Scepi

The peaks of the spectra of the accretion disks surrounding massive black holes in quasars are in the far-UV or soft X-ray band, which are usually not observed. However, in the disk corona model, the soft photons from the disk are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Bei You , Xinwu Cao , Ye-Fei Yuan

The structure of the inner edge of the accretion disk around a black hole can be altered, if the matter inside the marginally stable orbit is magnetically connected to the disk. In this case, a non-zero torque is exerted on its inner edge,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xinwu Cao , Y. D. Xu

The formation and large-scale propagation of Poynting-dominated jets produced by accreting, rapidly rotating black hole systems are studied by numerically integrating the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations of motion to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Jonathan C. McKinney

The accretion flow in the disk dominated state of black hole binaries has peak temperature and luminosity which vary together in such a way as to indicate an approximately constant emitting area. The association of this with the last stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chris Done , Shane W. Davis

Relativistic collimated outflows, or jets, provide a crucial mode of active galactic nucleus feedback. Although jets extract their energy from the black hole (BH) rotation, their effect on the BH spin is poorly understood. Because the spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Beverly Lowell , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We consider the effects of advection and radial gradients of pressure and radial drift velocity on the structure of accretion disks around black holes with proper description of optically thick/thin transitions. We concentrated our efforts…

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The theoretical model suggests that relativistic jets of AGN rely on the black hole spin and/or accretion. We study the relationship between jet, accretion, and spin using supermassive black hole samples with reliable spin of black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Jianghe Yang , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Dingrong Xiong , Nan Ding , Xiaotong Guo

We present unstratified 3D MHD simulations of an accretion disk with a boundary layer (BL) that have a duration $\sim 1000$ orbital periods at the inner radius of the accretion disk. We find the surprising result that angular momentum piles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Eliot Quataert

Large scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk is a key ingredient in the jet formation model. The most attractive scenario for the origin of such a large scale field is the advection of the field by the gas in the accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

Accreting black holes are responsible for producing the fastest, most powerful outflows of matter in the Universe. The formation process of powerful jets close to black holes is poorly understood, and the conditions leading to jet formation…

We show that in realistic cases of accretion in active galactic nuclei or stellar-mass X-ray binaries, the Lense-Thirring effect breaks the central regions of tilted accretion discs around spinning black holes into a set of distinct planes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel Price , Juhan Frank

We investigate the extraction of the rotational energy of a black hole under different accreting environment. When the accretion rate is moderate, the accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner advection-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes are among the most powerful and luminous astrophysical systems in Universe. We propose that the open magnetic field lines through the black hole, which drive a strongly magnetized jet, may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Haocheng Zhang , Dimitrios Giannios