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We present MHD simulations exploring the launching, acceleration and collimation of jets and disk winds. The evolution of the disk structure is consistently taken into account. Extending our earlier studies, we now consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt , Somayeh Sheikhnezami

Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) are an established feature in X-ray spectra of AGNs. According to the standard picture, they are launched at accretion disc scales with relativistic velocities, up to 0.3-0.4 c. Their high kinetic power is enough…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 A. Luminari , F. Nicastro , M. Elvis , E. Piconcelli , F. Tombesi , L. Zappacosta , F. Fiore

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

Fast magnetic reconnection events can play an important role in accretion disk systems. A potential model to explain the non-thermal very-high-energy (VHE) emission (from GeV to TeV) observed in black-hole binaries (BHBs) and Active Galatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Luís H. S. Kadowaki , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Tania E. Medina-Torrejón

We present results from a numerical study of the runaway instability of thick discs around black holes. This instability is an important issue for most models of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, where the central engine responsible for the initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose A. Font , Frederic Daigne

The growing evidence for energy-conserving outflows in powerful and luminous AGN supports the idea that high-velocity winds launched from the accretion disc evolve systematically after undergoing a shock with the ambient medium and that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-06 Anna Lia Longinotti

We run three long-timescale general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto non-rotating black holes. Our aim is to achieve steady-state behavior out to large radii and understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , Charles F. Gammie

Large-scale magnetic fields play a vital role in determining the angular momentum transport and generating jets/outflows in the accreting systems, yet their origin remains poorly understood. We focus on radiatively inefficient accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Prasun Dhang , Xue-Ning Bai , Christopher J. White

We have performed 2.5-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of collapsars including a rotating black hole. This paper is an extension of our previous paper (Mizuno et al. 2004). The current calculation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosuke Mizuno , Shoichi Yamada , Shinji Koide , Kazunari Shibata

I present results from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a gaseous envelope collapsing onto a black hole. These results support the notion that the collapsar model is one of most promising scenarios to explain the huge release of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Proga

Long-term observations have shown that black hole X-ray binaries exhibit strong, aperiodic variability on time-scales of a few milliseconds to seconds. The observed light curves display various characteristic features like a log-normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-28 D. A. Bollimpalli , R. Mahmoud , C. Done , P. C. Fragile , W. Kluźniak , R. Narayan , C. J. White

We study how axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) accretion flows depend on gamma adiabatic index in the polytropic equation of state. This work is an extension of Moscibrodzka & Proga (2008), where we investigated the gamma dependence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga

In radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) were detected at the inclination angle of $\sim10^{\rm o}$--$70^{\rm o}$ away from jets. Except for the inclination angle of UFOs, the UFOs in radio-loud AGNs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Xiao-Hong Yang

We posit that accreting compact objects, including stellar mass black holes and neutron stars as well as supermassive black holes, may undergo extended periods of accretion during which the angular momentum of the disk at large scales is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Omer M. Blaes , Jay D. Salmonson

Hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of hot accretion flow have indicated that there is an inward decreasing of mass accretion rate with decreasing radius. Consequently, we have a flatter density profile ($\rho \propto r^{-p}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-12 Maryam Ghasemnezhad

Binary systems surrounded by a circumbinary accretion flow can be subject to strong magnetic fields, potentially altering the character of the accretion flow itself, the evolution of the orbital dynamics, and outflow properties from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Hai-Yang Wang , Elias R. Most , Philip F. Hopkins

Turbulent magnetic diffusivity plays an important role for accretion disks and the launching of disk winds. We have implemented magnetic diffusivity, respective resistivity in the general relativistic MHD code HARM. This paper describes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Qian Qian , Christian Fendt , Scott Noble , Matteo Bugli

We present three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient spherical accretion onto a black hole. The simulations are initialized with a Bondi flow, and with a weak, dynamically unimportant,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan

We propose magnetically arrested disks (MADs) in quiescent black-hole (BH) binaries as the origin of the multiwavelength emission, and argue that this class of sources can dominate the cosmic-ray spectrum around the knee. X-ray luminosities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-23 Shigeo S. Kimura , Takahiro Sudoh , Kazumi Kashiyama , Norita Kawanaka

The quasi-steady structure of super-critical accretion flows around a black hole is studied based on the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical (2D-RHD) simulations. The super-critical flow is composed of two parts: the disk region and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ohsuga , M. Mori , T. Nakamoto , S. Mineshige