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A magnetohydrodynamic model is constructed for a cylindrical jet immersed in an external uniform magnetic field. It is shown that, as in the force-free case, the total electric current within the jet can be zero. The particle energetics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vassily S. Beskin , Leonid Malyshkin

Active galactic nuclei often exhibit highly collimated relativistic plasma outflows launched from the vicinity of their central black holes. One of the key theoretical challenges in understanding black hole jet formation is the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Rin Oikawa , Kenji Toma , Shigeo S. Kimura

The dynamical effects of magnetic fields in models of radiative, Herbig-Haro (HH) jets have been studied in a number of papers. For example, magnetized, radiative jets from variable sources have been studied with axisymmetric and 3D…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabio De Colle , Alejandro Raga , Alejandro Esquivel

In this study, we develop a simplified magnetofluid model in the framework of GRMHD. We consider an ideal, adiabatic fluid composed of two components, ions and electrons, having a constant ratio between their temperatures. The flows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We theoretically investigate the magnetic flux transport in geometrically thick accretion discs which may form around black holes. We utilize a two-dimensional (2D) kinematic mean-field model for poloidal field transport which is governed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Ryoya Yamamoto , Shinsuke Takasao

We present the results of 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the magnetic interaction between a weakly magnetized neutron star and its accretion disk. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Mitsuru Hayashi , Ryoji Matsumoto

Toroidal magnetic field is a key ingredient of relativistic jets launched by certain accreting astrophysical black holes, and of plasmoids emerging from the tearing instability during magnetic reconnection, a candidate dissipation mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Krzysztof Nalewajko

We calculate the evolution of the prompt intrinsic Poynting power generated by merging black holes. Orbiting black holes induce rotation of the space-time. In a presence of magnetic field supported by an accretion disk outside of the orbit,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-22 Maxim Lyutikov

Based on the K\"onigl's inhomogeneous jet model, we estimate the jet parameters, such as bulk Lorentz factor $\Gamma$, viewing angle $\theta$ and electron number density $n_{\rm e}$ from radio VLBI and X-ray data for a sample of active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Xinwu Cao , D. R. Jiang

We investigate impacts of stellar rotation and magnetic fields on black hole (BH) formation and its subsequent explosive activities, by conducting axisymmetric radiation-magnetohydrodynamics simulations of gravitational collapse of a 70…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Takami Kuroda , Masaru Shibata

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We discuss the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes, taking into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-27 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

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

In the paradigm of magnetic launching of astrophysical jets, instabilities in the MHD flow are a good candidate to convert the Poynting flux into the kinetic energy of the plasma. If the magnetised plasma fills the almost entire space, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 E. Sobacchi , Y. E. Lyubarsky

We present the first numerical simulations that track the evolution of a black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) merger from pre-merger to $r\gtrsim10^{11}\,{\rm cm}$. The disk that forms after a merger of mass ratio $q=2$ ejects massive disk winds…

In this study we explore the magnetic mechanism of hypernovae and relativistic jets of long duration gamma ray bursts within the collapsar scenario. This is an extension of our earlier work [1]. We track the collapse of massive rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

We derive the minimum power of jets and their magnetic field strength based on their observed non-thermal synchrotron emission. The correct form of this method takes into account both the internal energy in the jet and the ion rest-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrzej A. Zdziarski

We derive the kinetic luminosity function for flat spectrum radio jets, using the empirical and theoretical scaling relation between jet power and radio core luminosity. The normalization for this relation is derived from a sample of flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Sebastian Heinz , Andrea Merloni , Josiah Schwab

We have carried out 2D and 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of jets launched self-consistently from accretion disks orbiting Kerr black holes and applied the results to the inner engine of the collapsar model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Pierre De Villiers , Jan Staff , Rachid Ouyed