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BATSRUS, our state-of-the-art extended magnetohydrodynamic code, is the most used and one of the most resource-consuming models in the Space Weather Modeling Framework. It has always been our objective to improve its efficiency and speed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yifu An , Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Alexander Gaenko , Gábor Tóth

We present the AGATE simulation code, a Python-based framework developed primarily for solving the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations while maintaining adaptability to other equation sets. The code employs a modular, object-oriented…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Chris Bard , John Dorelli

We explore the formation, energetics, and geometry of relativistic jets along with the variability of their central engine. We study both fast and slowly rotating black holes and address our simulations to active galaxy (AGN) centers and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 A. Janiuk , B. James

We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Boris Daszuta , William Cook

The study of Magnetically Arrested Disks (MAD) attract strong interest in recent years, as these disk configurations were found to generate strong jets as observed in many accreting systems. Here, we present the results of 14 general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 G. -Q. Zhang , D. Bégué , A. Pe'er , B. -B. Zhang

There is a broad consensus that accretion onto supermassive black holes and consequent jet formation power the observed emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, there has been less agreement about how jets form in accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Shane W. Davis , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We present results of simulations of the spectrum of the accretion flow onto the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A*, generated with a coupling of Monte-Carlo (MC) radiation and general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Guy Hilburn , Edison Liang , Siming Liu , Hui Li

We present the first astrophysical application of the ECHO code in its recent version supplemented by a generalized Ohm law, namely a kinematic study of dynamo effects in thick accretion disks. High-order \emph{implicit-explicit}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-15 L. Del Zanna , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on the ideal MHD equations have become a powerful tool for modeling phenomena in a wide range of applications including laboratory, astrophysical, and space plasmas. In general, high-resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Hon-Cheng Wong , Un-Hong Wong , Xueshang Feng , Zesheng Tang

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-25 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Richard V. Lovelace

Employing 3D GRMHD simulation, we study the images of a geometrically thin jet, whose emissions concentrate on its surface, for accretion system surrounding a central spinning BH. By introducing a strong magnetic field, we observe three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Ye Shen , Yehui Hou , Zhong-Ying Fan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

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

We have recently carried out a computational campaign to investigate a model of coronal heating in three-dimensions using reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). Our code is built on a conventional scheme using the pseudo-spectral method, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 L. Lin , C. S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

We present a GPU-accelerated version of the real-space SPARC electronic structure code for performing hybrid functional calculations in generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In particular, we develop a batch variant of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Xin Jing , Abhiraj Sharma , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

This is the fourth in a series of companion papers showing that, when an efficient dynamo can be maintained by accretion disks around supermassive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), it will lead to the formation of a powerful,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 T. Kenneth Fowler , Hui Li , Richard Anantua

With large-scale Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of thousands of galaxies currently under-way or planned, the astronomical community is in need of methods, techniques and tools that will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Georgios Bekiaris , Karl Glazebrook , Christopher J. Fluke , Roberto Abraham

Current state-of-the-art simulations of accretion flows onto black holes require a significant level of numerical sophistication, in order to allow the three-dimensional modelling of relativistic magnetised plasma in a regime of strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-09 Matteo Bugli

We describe a computational framework for hierarchical Bayesian inference with simple (typically single-plate) parametric graphical models that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate computations, enabling deployment on very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 János M. Szalai-Gindl , Thomas J. Loredo , Brandon C. Kelly , István Csabai , Tamás Budavári , László Dobos

Worldwide very long baseline radio interferometry arrays are expected to obtain horizon-scale images of supermassive black hole candidates as well as of relativistic jets in several nearby active galactic nuclei. This motivates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Hector Olivares , Oliver Porth , Jordy Davelaar , Elias R. Most , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla