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We present numerical relativistic magnetohydrodynamic and emission simulations aimed to study the role played by the magnetic field in the dynamics and emission of relativistic jets in Active Galactic Nuclei. We focus our analysis on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-27 M. Roca-Sogorb , M. Perucho , J. L. Gomez , J. M. Marti , L. Anton , M. A. Aloy , I. Agudo

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We describe a new numerical 3D relativistic hydrodynamical code, the results of validation tests, and a comparison with earlier, 2D studies. The 3D code has been used to study the deflection and precession of relativistic flows. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip A. Hughes , Mark A. Miller , G. Comer Duncan

Extragalactic jets are broadly classified into two categories based on radio observations: core-brightened jets, known as Fanaroff-Riley Type I (FR I), and edge-brightened jets, classified as Type II (FR II). This FR dichotomy may arise due…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Priyesh Kumar Tripathi , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Raj Kishor Joshi , Ritaban Chatterjee , Sanjit Debnath , M. Saleem Khan

(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

Relativistic AGN jets exhibit multi-timescale variability and a broadband non-thermal spectrum extending from radio to gamma-rays. These highly magnetized jets are prone to undergo several Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Sriyasriti Acharya , Nikhil S Borse , Bhargav Vaidya

Most large scale dynamo research for astrophysical rotators focuses on interior flow driven helical dynamos (FDHDs), but larger scale coronal fields most directly influence observations. It is thus important to understand the relationship…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric G. Blackman

Recent pulsed-power experiments have demonstrated the formation of astrophysically-relevant, differentially rotating plasmas [1]. Key features of the plasma flows are the discovery of a quasi-Keplerian rotation curve, the launching of…

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

We present results of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of jet formation and propagation, discussing a variety of astrophysical setups. In the first approach we consider simulations of relativistic MHD jet formation, considering jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Christian Fendt , Oliver Porth , Somayeh Sheikhnezami

We show three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of core collapse supernova in which the progenitor has magnetic fields inclined to the rotation axis. The simulations employed a simple empirical equation of state in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hayato Mikami , Yuji Sato , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

We present results of new three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of rapidly rotating strongly magnetized core collapse. These simulations are the first of their kind and include a microphysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-18 P. Mösta , S. Richers , C. D. Ott , R. Haas , A. L. Piro , K. Boydstun , E. Abdikamalov , C. Reisswig , E. Schnetter

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been applied to investigate the interrelation of a central stellar magnetosphere and stellar wind with a surrounding magnetized disk outflow and how the overall formation of a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christian Fendt

We study the structures of ultra-relativistic jets injected into the intracluster medium (ICM) and the associated flow dynamics, such as shocks, velocity shear, and turbulence, through three-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Jeongbhin Seo , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu

Magnetic Towers represent one of two fundamental forms of MHD outflows. Driven by magnetic pressure gradients, these flows have been less well studied than magneto-centrifugally launched jets even though magnetic towers may well be as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Martín Huarte-Espinosa , Adam Frank , Eric G. Blackman , Andrea Ciardi , Patrick M. Hartigan , Sergey Lebedev , Jeremy P. Chittenden

We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in an expanding cosmic plasma. For this purpose we present a comprehensive theoretical model to consider the evolution of MHD turbulence that can be used over a wide range of physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We have carried out simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability for compressible fluids in $2\frac{1}{2}$-dimensions, extending our previous work by Frank et al (1996) and Jones…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hyunju Jeong , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

We computed the thermal microwave emission from a 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and compared it with observations of solar jets. The simulation treats the emergence of magnetic flux into the solar atmosphere and its interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Costas E. Alissandrakis , Vasilis Archontis , Kostas Moraitis

We present a set of high-resolution 3D MHD simulations of steady light, supersonic jets, exploring the influence of jet Mach number and the ambient medium on jet propagation and energy deposition over long distances. The results are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. O'Neill , I. L. Tregillis , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu

Gas falling into a black hole (BH) from large distances is unaware of BH spin direction, and misalignment between the accretion disc and BH spin is expected to be common. However, the physics of tilted discs (e.g., angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 Matthew Liska , Casper Hesp , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Sera Markoff