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Outflows play a pivotal role in star formation as one of its most visible markers and a means of transporting mass, momentum, and angular momentum from the infalling gas into the surrounding molecular cloud. Their wide reach (at least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Shantanu Basu , Mahmoud Sharkawi , Masahiro N. Machida

After the initial stage of fast expanding of the hot Universe comes epoch of temperature fall and subsequent formation of dense clouds of hydrogen. Due to process of accretion some of this clouds became compact objects. Initially accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Zlatan Dimitrov Dimitrov

We suggest a possible mechanism of efficient transport of the large-scale external magnetic flux inward through a turbulent accretion disk. The outward drift by turbulent diffusion which limits the effectiveness of this process is reduced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , H. C. Spruit

We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Porth , C. Fendt

We examine mass outflows from a low-angular momentum, viscous, advective, and magnetized accretion disk around a rotating black hole in presence of thermal conduction. We consider the disk is primarily threaded by the toroidal component of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Camelia Jana , Monu Singh , Suvendu Rakshit , Santabrata Das

AGNs exhibit a wide range of black hole masses and inflow/outflow properties. It is now possible to probe regions close to the event horizons of nearby SMBHs using VLBI with earth-sized baselines, as performed by the EHT. This study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-23 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Christian Fendt , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Neil M. Nagar , Felipe Agurto-Sepulveda , Javier Pedreros

Convection-dominated accretion flow (CDAF) is a promising model to explain underluminous accreting black holes in X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. I discuss effects of angular momentum transport in viscous hydrodynamical and MHD CDAFs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are an important channel for accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to interact with their host galaxies and clusters. Properties of the outflows are however poorly constrained due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Yu Qiu , Brian R. McNamara , Tamara Bogdanovic , Kohei Inayoshi , Luis C. Ho

Observations are providing increasingly detailed quantitative information about the accretion flows that power such high energy systems as X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. Analytic models of such systems must rely on assumptions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Hawley , J. -P. De Villiers

(Abridged) We study the dynamical evolution of a stationary, axisymmetric, and perfectly conducting cold accretion disk containing a large-scale magnetic field around a Kerr black hole, trying to understand the relation between accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

Black hole (BH) spin can play an important role in galaxy evolution by controlling the amount of energy and momentum ejected from near the BH into the surroundings. We focus on radiatively-inefficient and geometrically-thick…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Beverly Lowell , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Alex Duncan

Recurring outbursts associated with matter flowing onto compact stellar remnants (black-holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs) in close binary systems, provide strong test beds for constraining the poorly understood accretion process. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 B. E. Tetarenko , J. -P. Lasota , C. O. Heinke , G. Dubus , G. R. Sivakoff

Previous hydrodynamical (HD) and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) numerical simulations of hot accretion flows have shown that the mass accretion rate decreases with decreasing radius. Two models have been proposed to explain this result. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Maochun Wu

By using AMR cosmological hydrodynamic N-body zoom-in simulations, with the RAMSES code, we studied the mass transport processes onto galactic nuclei from high redshift up to $z\sim6$. Due to the large dynamical range of the simulations we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Joaquin Prieto , Andres Escala

The relation between the mass accretion rate onto the circumstellar disc and the rate of mass ejection by magnetically driven winds is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Using a spherical cloud core with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Yuko Matsushita , Masahiro N. Machida , Yuya Sakurai , Takashi Hosokawa

This paper continues the analysis of a set of general relativistic 3D MHD simulations of accreting tori in the Kerr metric with different black hole spins. We focus on bound matter inside the initial pressure maximum, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley , Shigenobu Hirose

We present results of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations investigating the launching of jets and outflows from a magnetically diffusive accretion disk. The time evolution of the disk structure is self-consistently taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt

We address the role of large scale magnetic stress in the angular momentum transport, as well as the formation of different kinds of magnetic barrier in geometrically thick, optically thin, vertically averaged 1.5-dimensional advective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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 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