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We investigate the evolution of a disk wind into a collimated jet under the influence of magnetic diffusivity, assuming that the turbulent pattern in the disk will also enter the disk corona and the jet. Using the ZEUS-3D code in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Fendt , Miljenko Cemeljic

As a follow-up study of our previous work, numerical-relativity simulations for seconds-long black hole-neutron star mergers are performed for a variety of setups. Irrespective of the initial and symmetry conditions, we find qualitatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

In strongly magnetized astrophysical plasma systems, magnetic reconnection is believed to be a primary process during which explosive energy release and particle acceleration occur, leading to significant high-energy emission. Past years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Fan Guo , Xiaocan Li , William Daughton , Hui Li , Patrick Kilian , Yi-Hsin Liu , Qile Zhang , Haocheng Zhang

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

Fast $\gamma$-ray variability in blazars remains a central puzzle in high-energy astrophysics, challenging standard shock acceleration models. Blazars, a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets pointed close to our line of sight,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Chandan Kumar Das , Bhargav Vaidya , Amit Shukla , Giancarlo Mattia , Karl Mannheim

A 3D simulation of a non-relativistic, magnetically driven jet propagating in a stratified atmosphere is presented, covering about three decades in distance and two decades in sideways expansion. The simulation captures the jet acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Moll

We investigate the evolution of a disk wind into a collimated jet under the influence of magnetic diffusivity. Using the ZEUS-3D code in the axisymmetry option we solve the time-dependent resistive MHD equations for a model setup of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cemeljic , Ch. Fendt

In magnetized astrophysical outflows, the dissipation of field energy into particle energy via magnetic reconnection is often invoked to explain the observed non-thermal signatures. By means of two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

NASA's NICER telescope has recently provided evidence for non-dipolar magnetic field structures in rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. These stars are assumed to have gone through a prolonged accretion spin-up phase, begging the question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Pushpita Das , Oliver Porth , Anna Watts

We analyzed the results of non-linear resistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of jet formation to study the acceleration mechanism of axisymmetric, resistive MHD jets. The initial state is a constant angular momentum, polytropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kuwabara , K. Shibata , T. Kudoh , R. Matsumoto

Non-relativistic, magnetically-driven jets are constructed by taking self-consistently into account the feedback on the underlying accretion disc. It is shown that such jets are mostly described by the ejection index $\xi= \mbox{d} \ln \dot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Ferreira

Magnetic reconnection is thought to be the driver for many explosive phenomena in the universe. The energy release and particle acceleration during reconnection have been proposed as a mechanism for producing high-energy emissions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-10 Fan Guo , Yi-Hsin Liu , William Daughton , Hui Li

Using the three-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code RAISHIN, we investigated the influence of radial density profile on the spatial development of the current-driven kink instability along magnetized rotating, relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-11 Chandra B. Singh , Yosuke Mizuno , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

A set of 3D MHD simulations of magnetized jets has been performed. The jets contain an equipartition primarily poloidal magnetic field and the effect of jet density on jet dynamics and structure is evaluated. The jet is precessed at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. E. Hardee , D. A. Clarke , A. Rosen

Black-hole driven relativistic astrophysical jets, such as blazars and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), are powerful sources of electromagnetic radiation. Their emission is powered by some energy dissipation and particle acceleration mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Dimitrios Giannios , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

A significant interest has emerged recently in assessing whether collimated and ultra-relativistic outflows can be produced by a long-lived remnant from a binary neutron-star (BNS) merger, with different approaches leading to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-14 Carlo Musolino , Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most

We study the star-disc interaction in the presence of the strong magnetic field ($B_\star=6.2kG$) of a slowly rotating star. This situation describes a post-merger of the spectral type B and has not been previously investigated. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 A. Moranchel-Basurto , D. Korčáková , R. O. Chametla

We investigate the dependence of the GRB jet structure and its evolution on the properties of the accreting torus in the central engine. Our models numerically evolve the accretion disk around a Kerr black hole using 3D general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-25 Bestin James , Agnieszka Janiuk , Fatemeh Hossein Nouri

Turbulent accretion disks are the most probable origin of jets from young stellar objects. Using an extended version of ZEUS-3D code in the axisymmetry option we investigate the evolution of a disk wind into a collimated jet. Resistive jets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miljenko Cemeljic , Christian Fendt

Short GRBs are produced by relativistic jets arising from binary NS-NS or NS-BH mergers. Since the detection of the first unambiguous off-axis GRB 170817A, we learned that energy distribution in the jet plays an important role in explaining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-19 Gerardo Urrutia , Agnieszka Janiuk