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We investigate the growth of jet plus entrained mass in simulations of supermagnetosonic cylindrical and expanding jets. The entrained mass spatially grows in three stages: from an initially slow spatial rate to a faster rate and finally at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Rosen , P. E. Hardee

The distinctive morphology of head-tail radio galaxies reveals strong interactions between the radio jets and their intra-cluster environment, the general consensus on the morphology origin of head-tail sources is that radio jets are bent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Zhaoming Gan , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Feng Yuan

We study the interaction of relativistic jets with their environment, using 3-dimensional relativistic particle-in-cell simulations for two cases of jet composition: (i) electron-proton ($e^{-}-p^{+}$) and (ii) electron-positron ($e^{\pm}$)…

Extragalactic jets are inferred to harbor dynamically important, organized magnetic fields which presumably aid in the collimation of the relativistic jet flows. We here explore by means of grid-adaptive, high resolution numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Keppens , Z. Meliani , B. van der Holst , F. Casse

Jets and outflows are thought to be an integral part of accretion phenomena and are associated with a large variety of objects. In these systems, the interaction of magnetic fields with an accretion disk and/or a magnetized central object…

Radio observations of Fanaroff-Riley class II sources often show correlations between the synchrotron emission and the linear-polarimetric distributions. Magnetic position vectors seem to align with the projected emission of both the radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Martin Huarte-Espinosa , Martin Krause , Paul Alexander

We present experimental results on the formation of supersonic, radiatively cooled jets driven by pressure due to the toroidal magnetic field generated by the 1.5 MA, 250 ns current from the MAGPIE generator. The morphology of the jet…

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

We report the results of three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of interactions of overdense, radiatively cooling and adiabatic jets with dense, compact clouds in frontal and off-axis collisions. Calculated for a set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The jets emanating from the centers of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic objects in the universe. Investigating how the morphology of the jet's synchrotron emission depends on the magnetic nature of the jet's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Joana A. Kramer , Nicholas R. MacDonald

We have performed magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic jets from supermassive blackholes over a few tens of kpc for a range of jet parameters. One of the primary aims were to investigate the effect of different MHD instabilities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Andrea Mignone , Paola Rossi , Bhargav Vaidya

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of strongly magnetized ``light'' conical jets have been performed. An investigation of the transition from sub-Alfv\'enic to super-Alfv\'enic flow has been made for nearly poloidal and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. E. Hardee , A. Rosen

Toroidal magnetic field is a key ingredient of relativistic jets launched by certain accreting astrophysical black holes, and of plasmoids emerging from the tearing instability during magnetic reconnection, a candidate dissipation mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Krzysztof Nalewajko

In this study we investigate jet interaction at a microscopic level in a cosmological environment, which responds to a key open question in the study of relativistic jets. Using small simulation systems during prior research, we initially…

We investigate how magnetic field variations around accreting black holes on event horizon scales affect the morphology of magnetically-driven jet on larger scales. By performing radiative transfer calculations on general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Yuh Tsunetoe , Ramesh Narayan , Angelo Ricarte

In the study of relativistic jets one of the key open questions is their interaction with the environment on the microscopic level. Here, we study the initial evolution of both electron$-$proton ($e^{-}-p^{+}$) and electron$-$positron…

One of the key questions in the study of relativistic jets is how magnetic reconnection occurs and whether it can effectively accelerate electrons in the jet. We performed 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of a relativistic…

We search for signatures of magnetic flux cancellation in a 3D resistive MHD flux-emergence simulation of coronal jets and eruptions in a coronal-hole-like environment. To do this, we analysed the output from a 3D MHD simulation of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Spiros Patsourakos , Vasilis Archontis

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

An axisymmetric MHD model is examined analytically to illustrate some key aspects of the physics of hot and magnetized outflows which originate in the near environment of a central gravitating body. By analyzing the asymptotical behaviour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sauty , K. Tsinganos , E. Trussoni