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At least some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) originate from neutron star mergers, systems that release both a relativistic collimated jet and slower, wider ejecta. These jets evolve through a dense, anisotropic, and expanding medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Leonardo Garcia-Garcia , Diego Lopez-Camara , Davide Lazzati

We calculate light-curves for Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows when material ejected in the explosion is confined to a jet which propagates in a medium with a power-law density profile. The observed light-curve decay steepens by a factor of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pawan Kumar , Alin Panaitescu

We present the results of special relativistic, adaptive mesh refinement, 3D simulations of gamma-ray burst jets expanding inside a realistic stellar progenitor. Our simulations confirm that relativistic jets can propagate and break out of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Diego López-Cámara , Brian J. Morsony , Micthell C. Begelman , Davide Lazzati

A precise quantification of the medium-modification of the high transverse momenta jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions rely on consistent modelling of elastic and inelastic energy loss suffered by the jet and the concurrent underlying…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Monideepa Maity , Subrata Pal

We consider the time-dependent evolution of a relativistic jet following its breakout through the surface of a massive compact star, as envisaged in the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts. At breakout, the jet is tightly collimated by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Davide Lazzati , Mitchell Begelman

Context: Astrophysical jets from various sources seem to be stratified, with a fast inner jet and a slower outer jet. As it is likely that the launching mechanism for each component is different, their interface will develop differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Meliani , R. Keppens

The fact that physical conservation laws can be derived from symmetry properties of space and time, as shown by Emily N\"other, has been utilized in predicting the development of the round turbulent jet from the jet exit to the far field.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-11 Preben Buchhave , Mengjia Ren , Clara Marika Velte

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of stratified jets. The internal component (core) is made of a relativistic gas moving with a relativistic bulk speed. The second component (sheath or envelope) flows between the core and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hanasz , H. Sol

The linear and non-linear stability of sheared, relativistic planar jets is studied by means of linear stability analysis and numerical hydrodynamical simulations. Our results extend the previous Kelvin-Hemlholtz stability studies for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Perucho , J. M. Marti , M. Hanasz

Context. Radio galaxies with visible two-sided jet structures, such as NGC 1052, are sources of particular interest to study the collimation and shock structure of active galactic nuclei jets. High-resolution very-long-baseline…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-04 Ainara Saiz-Pérez , Christian M. Fromm , Manel Perucho , Oliver Porth , Matthias Kadler , Yosuke Mizuno , Andrew Chael , Karl Mannheim

The interaction of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets with the dense media into which they are launched promote the growth of local hydrodynamic instabilities along the jet boundary. In a companion paper we study the evolution of hydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Ore Gottlieb , Omer Bromberg , Chandra B. Singh , Ehud Nakar

Transverse stratification is a common intrinsic feature of astrophysical jets. There is growing evidence that jets in radio galaxies consist of a fast low density outflow at the jet axis, surrounded by a slower, denser, extended jet. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Z. Meliani , R. Keppens

Three dimensional numerical simulations of the response of a Lorentz factor 2.5 relativistic jet to precession at three different frequencies have been performed. Low, moderate and high precession frequencies have been chosen relative to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Hardee , P. Hughes , A. Rosen , E. Gomez

We study the evolution of the ultra-relativistic shock wave in a plane-parallel atmosphere adjacent to a vacuum and the subsequent breakout phenomenon. When the density distribution has a power law with the distance from the surface, there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazunori Nakayama , Toshikazu Shigeyama

lasma instabilities excited in collisionless shocks are responsible for particle acceleration. We have investigated the particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic electron-positron jet propagating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. -I. Nishikawa , E. J. Choi , K. Min , P. Hardee , Y. Mizuno , B. Zhang , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , A. Nordlund , J. Fredriksen , M. Pohl , H. Sol , D. H. Hartmann , G. J. Fishman

We present a new approach to derive the observed properties of synchrotron outbursts in relativistic jets. The idea is to use the very well sampled submillimetre-to-radio long-term light curves of 3C 273 to extract the spectral and temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Turler , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , S. Paltani

We have performed the first three-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of extragalactic jets of pure leptonic and baryonic plasma compositions propagating into a hydrostatic intracluster medium environment. The numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Eunwoo Choi

A cocoon is a by-product of a propagating jet that results from shock heating at the jet head. Herein, considering simultaneous cocoon formation, we study the stability of relativistic jets propagating through the uniform ambient medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-03 Jin Matsumoto , Youhei Masada

There are several lines of evidence indicating that the ultra-relativistic outflows powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are collimated into narrow jets. However, these are indirect, and the jet structure is rather poorly constrained. What is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-24 Jonathan Granot , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We study the structures of ultra-relativistic jets injected into the intracluster medium (ICM) and the associated flow dynamics, such as shocks, velocity shear, and turbulence, through three-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Jeongbhin Seo , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu