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Turbulent accretion disks threaded by a large-scale vertical field near equipartition can drive tenuous and fast self-confined jets. Self-similar solutions of these jet-emitting disks (JEDs) have been known for a long time and provide the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 N. Zimniak , C. Zanni , J. Ferreira

The physical modeling of the accretion disk boundary layer, the region where the disk meets the surface of the accreting star, usually relies on the assumption that angular momentum transport is opposite to the radial angular frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Chi-kwan Chan , Martin E. Pessah

We discuss numerical results of relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet formation models. We first review some examples of stationary state solutions treating the collimation and acceleration process of relativistic MHD jets. We provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Christian Fendt , Elisabetta Memola

We characterize magnetically driven accretion at radii between 1 au and 100 au in protoplanetary discs, using a series of local non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The simulations assume a Minimum Mass Solar Nebula (MMSN) disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Jacob B. Simon , Geoffroy Lesur , Matthew W. Kunz , Philip J. Armitage

A maximum jet efficiency line $R\sim 25$ ($R=L_{\rm jet}/L_{\rm bol}$), found in FRII radio galaxies by Fernandes et al., was extended to cover the full range of jet power by Punsly. Recent general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Shuang-Liang Li

Unconfined relativistic outflows from rotating, magnetized compact objects are often well-modeled by assuming the field geometry is approximately a split-monopole at large radii. Earlier work has indicated that such an unconfined flow has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-29 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

Models invoking magnetic reconnection as the particle acceleration mechanism within relativistic jets often adopt a gradual energy dissipation profile within the jet. However, such a profile has yet to be reproduced in first-principles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Emma Kaufman , I. M. Christie , A. Lalakos , A. Tchekhovskoy , D. Giannios

Dwarf Novae and low-mass X-ray binaries are eruptive binary systems comprised of a Roche-lobe overflowing solar-type star and an accreting compact object. Their recurrence time can be explained by a low-accreting phase, the quiescence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Marc Van den Bossche , Geoffroy Lesur , Guillaume Dubus

Recent numerical simulations and analytical models of magnetically collimated plasma outflows from a uniformly rotating central gravitating object and/or a Keplerian accretion disk have shown that relatively low mass and magnetic fluxes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Bogovalov , K. Tsinganos

For the past twenty-five years, nearly all analyses of accretion disk dynamics have assumed that stress inside the disk is locally proportional to pressure (the "alpha-model") and that this stress goes to zero at the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Julian H. Krolik

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

The power of jets from black holes are expected to depend on both the spin of the black hole and the structure of the accretion disk in the region of the last stable orbit. We investigate these dependencies using two different physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

By studying three-dimensional, radiative, global simulations of sub-Eddington, geometrically thin black hole accretion flows we show that thin disks which are dominated by magnetic pressure are stable against thermal instability. Such disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Aleksander Sadowski

We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the structure of the boundary layer between an accretion disc and a non-rotating, unmagnetized star. Under the assumption that cooling is efficient, we obtain a narrow but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip J. Armitage

We report new global ideal MHD simulations for thin accretion disks (with thermal scale height H/R=0.1 and 0.05) threaded by net vertical magnetic fields. Our computations span three orders of magnitude in radius, extend all the way to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone

We investigate time-dependent inviscid hydrodynamical accretion flows onto a black hole using numerical simulations. We consider the accretion that consists of hot tenuous gas with low specific angular momentum and cold dense gas with high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Koji Nobuta , Tomoyuki Hanawa

We present two general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around non-spinning ($a_*=0$) and spinning ($a_*=0.9$) supermassive black holes (BHs). In each simulation, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Ramesh Narayan

Disk accretion onto a magnetized star occurs in a variety of astrophysical contexts, from young stars to X-ray pulsars. The magnetohydrodynamic interaction between the stellar field and the accreting matter can have a strong effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Arieh Konigl , Christof Litwin

Relativistic jets launched from stellar-mass compact objects embedded in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) can produce nonthermal emission upon successfully breaking out of the disk. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

According to the standard thin disc theory, it is predicted that the radiation-pressure-dominated inner region of a thin disc is thermally unstable, while observations suggest that it is common for a thin disc of more than 0.01 Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Yu Zhao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Li Xue , Shuang-Liang Li