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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 carried out 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic diffusivity on magnetically driven mass accretion and jet formation. We found that (1) when the normalized magnetic diffusivity, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kuwabara , K. Shibata , R. Matsumoto

Many astrophysical sources, e.g., cataclysmic variables, X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, exhibit a wind outflow, when they reveal a multicolor blackbody spectrum, hence harboring a geometrically thin Keplerian accretion disk. Unlike…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Nagendra Kumar , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We analyze a two dimensional viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model for a thin accretion disk which reconciles the crystalline structure outlined in [Coppi(2005), Coppi and Rousseau(2006)] with real microscopic and macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Riccardo Benini , Giovanni Montani , Jacopo Petitta

(Abridged) We report results of three dimensional MHD simulations of global accretion disks threaded with weak vertical magnetic fields. We perform the simulations in the spherical coordinates with different temperature profiles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Angular momentum is transported outwards through an accretion disc by magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence thus allowing material to accrete on to the central object. The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) requires a minimum ionisation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , Mario Livio , J. E. Pringle

We present a new set of analytical solutions to model the steady state structure of a protoplanetary disc with a magnetically-driven wind. Our model implements a parametrization of the stresses involved and the wind launching mechanism in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Fazeleh Khajenabi , Mohsen Shadmehri , Martin E. Pessah , Rebecca G. Martin

We carry out a series of local, vertically stratified shearing box simulations of protoplanetary disks that include ambipolar diffusion and a net vertical magnetic field. The ambipolar diffusion profiles we employ correspond to 30AU and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , Philip J. Armitage , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

Canonically, a protoplanetary disk is thought to undergo (gravito-)viscous evolution, wherein the angular momentum of the accreting material is transported outwards. However, several lines of reasoning suggest that the turbulent viscosity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Kundan Kadam , Eduard Vorobyov , Peter Woitke , Shantanu Basu , Sierk van Terwisga

The absence of thermal instability in the high/soft state of black hole X-ray binaries, in disagreement with the standard thin disk theory, is a long-standing riddle for theoretical astronomers. We have tried to resolve this question by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Shuang-Liang Li , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present the results of non linear, hydrodynamic simulations, in three dimensions, of the tidal perturbation of accretion discs in binary systems where the orbit is circular and not necessarily coplanar with the disc mid-plane. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. D. Larwood , R. P. Nelson , J. C. B. Papaloizou , C. Terquem

Jets and outflows are commonly observed in young stellar objects (YSOs), yet their origins remain debated. Using 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a circumstellar disk threaded by a large-scale open poloidal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Yisheng Tu , Zhi-Yun Li , Zhaohuan Zhu , Chun-Yen Hsu , Xiao Hu

We present a study of X-ray ionization of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion-disk winds in an effort to constrain the physics underlying the highly-ionized ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) inferred by X-ray absorbers often detected in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Keigo Fukumura , Francesco Tombesi , Demosthenes Kazanas , Chris Shrader , Ehud Behar , Ioannis Contopoulos

We explore the possibility to explain the properties of the Be/X-ray pulsars observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud within the magnetic levitation accretion scenario. This implies that their X-ray emission is powered by a wind-fed accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 N. R. Ikhsanov , S. Mereghetti

We investigate the migration of low-mass planets ($5 M_{\oplus}$ and $20 M_{\oplus}$) in accretion discs threaded with a magnetic field using 2D MHD code in polar coordinates. We observed that, in the case of a strong azimuthal magnetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 M. L. Comins , M. M. Romanova , A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , R. V. E. Lovelace

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in accretion discs is an important problem because of its role in the launching of jets and winds and in determining the intensity of turbulence. In this paper, we develop a formalism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Axisymmetric resistive MHD simulations for radially self-similar initial conditions are performed, using the NIRVANA code. The magnetic diffusivity could occur in outflows above an accretion disk, being transferred from the underlying disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miljenko Cemeljic , Jose Gracia , Nektarios Vlahakis , Kanaris Tsinganos

Magnetically arrested disks (MADs) are a compelling model for explaining variability in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN), including horizon-scale outbursts like those observed in Sagittarius A*. MADs experience powerful flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Mitchell C. Begelman , Beverly Lowell , Matthew Liska , Jason Dexter , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

It is believed that the spectral state transitions of the outbursts in X-ray binaries (XRBs) are triggered by the rise of the mass accretion rate due to underlying disc instabilities. Recent observations found that characteristics of disc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Ziri Younsi

Winds from accretion disks have been proposed as the driving source for precessing jets and extreme bipolar morphologies in Planetary Nebulae (PNe) and proto-PNe (pPNe). In this paper we address the applicability MHD disk wind models to PNe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Frank , E. Blackman