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Relativistic jets are highly collimated plasma outflows emerging from accreting black holes. They are launched with a significant amount of magnetic energy, which can be dissipated to accelerate nonthermal particles and give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Lingyi Dong , Haocheng Zhang , Dimitrios Giannios

The dynamics and instability of the magnetized jets connected to jet acceleration are complicated and are not yet well understood. Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as special timing features in black hole systems can directly probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Jiashi Chen , Pengfu Tian , Wei Wang

This paper presents a simple model of polarisation rotation in optically thin relativistic jets of blazars. The model is based on the development of helical (kink) mode of current-driven instability. A possible explanation is suggested for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-06 Krzysztof Nalewajko

Kink instabilities are likely to occur in the current-carrying magnetized plasma jets. Recent observations of the blazar radiation and polarization signatures suggest that the blazar emission region may be considerably magnetized. While the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Haocheng Zhang , Hui Li , Fan Guo , Greg Taylor

Relativistic outflows emanating from active galactic nuclei can extend up to kiloparsec scales in length, displaying a variety of complex morphologies. This study explores the intricate morphologies of such relativistic jets, mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Nikita Upreti , Bhargav Vaidya , Amit Shukla

The magnetic field morphology of relativistic jets can be studied with circular polarization (CP). Recent 3D relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations coupled with radiative transfer calculations make strong predictions about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Joana A Kramer , Hendrik Müller , Jan Röder , Eduardo Ros

This study explores the detection of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in blazars as a method to identify kink events within their jets, utilizing both $\gamma$-ray and polarized light observations. Focusing on a sample of 9 blazars, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 P. Peñil , H. Zhang , J. Otero-Santos , M. Ajello , S. Buson , S. Adhikari , A. Rico , J. Escudero Pedrosa , I. Agudo , D. Morcuende , A. Sota , V. Casanova , F. J. Aceituno

We investigate with relativistic MHD simulations the dissipation physics of BL Lac jets, by studying the synchrotron polarization signatures of particles accelerated by the kink instability in a magnetically-dominated plasma column. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Gianluigi Bodo , Fabrizo Tavecchio , Lorenzo Sironi

We describe a geometric model for synchrotron radiation from blazar jets, involving multiple emission zones with turbulent magnetic fields and a transient core with a helical B field. Including the effects of jet divergence, particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 A. L. Peirson , Roger W. Romani

Relativistic jets naturally occur in astrophysical systems that involve accretion onto compact objects, such as core collapse of massive stars in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and accretion onto supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Omer Bromberg , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We investigate the temporal variability of polarization of synchrotron radiation from blazar jets. Multiwavelength observations revealed high-amplitude rotations of the electric vector position angle (EVPA), both in the optical and in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Filippo Bolis , Emanuele Sobacchi , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Blazars are thought to possess a relativistic jet that is pointing toward the direction of the Earth and the elect of relativistic beaming enhances its apparent brightness. They radiate in all wavebands from the radio to the gamma-ray bands…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Ryosuke Itoh , Yasushi FUkazawa , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka , Makoto Uemura , Koji S. Kawabata , Hiroshi Akitaya , Kenji Kawaguchi , Yuka Kanda

Relativistic shocks are one of the most plausible sites of the emission of strongly variable, polarized multi-wavelength emission from relativistic jet sources such as blazars, via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-06 Markus Boettcher

Non-relativistic three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of Poynting flux dominated (PFD) jets are presented. Our study focuses on the propagation of strongly magnetized hypersonic, but sub-Alfv\'enic ($C^{2}_{\rm s} \ll…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Nakamura , David L. Meier

We present a general relativistic (GR) model of jet variability in active galactic nuclei due to orbiting blobs in helical motion along a funnel or cone shaped magnetic surface anchored to the accretion disk near the black hole. Considering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-26 P. Mohan , A. Mangalam

We have investigated the influence of jet rotation and differential motion on the linear and nonlinear development of the current-driven (CD) kink instability of force-free helical magnetic equilibria via three-dimensional relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yosuke Mizuno , Yuri Lyubarsky , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

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

We investigate the dynamical propagation of the South-East jet from the Crab pulsar interacting with supernova ejecta by means of three-dimensional relativistic MHD numerical simulations with the PLUTO code. The initial jet structure is set…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Mignone , E. Striani , M. Tavani , A. Ferrari

Non-relativistic three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of Poynting-flux-dominated (PFD) jets are presented. Our study focuses on the propagation of strongly magnetized hypersonic but sub-Alfv\'enic flow ($C_{\rm s}^2 << V_{\rm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Nakamura , David L. Meier

Relativistic magnetized jets from active galaxies are among the most powerful cosmic accelerators, but their particle acceleration mechanisms remain a mystery. We present a new acceleration mechanism associated with the development of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 E. Paulo Alves , Jonathan Zrake , Frederico Fiuza
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