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Stellar-mass black holes with relativistic jets, also known as microquasars, mimic the behavior of quasars and active galactic nuclei. Because timescales around stellar-mass black holes are orders of magnitude smaller than those around more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-26 Joseph Neilsen , Julia C. Lee

Jet systems with two unequal components interact with their parent accretion disks through the asymmetric removal of linear momentum from the star-disk system. We show that as a result of this interaction, the disk's state of least energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Fathi Namouni

The characteristic properties of blazars (rapid variability, strong polarization, high brightness) are widely attributed to a powerful relativistic jet oriented close to our line of sight. Despite the spectral energy distributions (SEDs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 E. J. D. Jolley , Z. Kuncic , G. V. Bicknell , S. Wagner

It is argued that jet modelers have given insufficient study to the natural magneto-static configurations of field wound up in the presence of a confining general pressure. Such fields form towers whose height grows with each twist at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D Lynden-Bell

Jets and outflows must be produced directly from accretion disks and inflows, especially when the central gravitating objects are compact, such as neutron stars and black holes, and themselves are {\it not} mass losing. Here, we review the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We study the orientation of accretion disks, traced by the position angle of the jet, relative to the dust disk major axis in a sample of 20 nearby Radio Galaxies. We find that the observed distribution of angles between the jet and dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henrique R. Schmitt

Enigmatic transitions between spin-up and spin-down have been observed in several X-ray pulsars accreting matter via an accretion disk. In these transitions, the torque changes sign but remains at nearly the same magnitude. It has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. H. van Kerkwijk , Deepto Chakrabarty , J. E. Pringle , R. A. M. J. Wijers

We discuss the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes, taking into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-27 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

Jets from young stars represent one of the most striking signposts of star formation. The phenomenon has been researched for over two decades and there is now general agreement that such jets are generated as a by-product of accretion; most…

Magnetic fields are fundamental to the dynamics of both accretion disks and the jets that they often drive. We review the basic physics of these phenomena, the past and current efforts to model them numerically with an emphasis on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 John F. Hawley , Christian Fendt , Martin Hardcastle , Elena Nokhrina , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Jets and outflows are key components of low-mass star formation, regulating accretion and shaping the surrounding molecular clouds. These flows, traced by molecular species at (sub)millimeter wavelengths (e.g., CO, SiO, SO, H$_2$CO, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Somnath Dutta

Jets are a ubiquitous part of the accretion process, created in AGN, by a coupling between the magnetic field near the central black hole and inflowing material. We point out what advances can be achieved by new technologies, concentrating…

A review is made of recent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory and simulations of origin of jets from accretion disks. Many compact astrophysical objects emit powerful, highly-collimated, oppositely directed jets. Included are the extra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba

The evolution and physics of the common envelope (CE) phase are still not well understood. Jets launched from a compact object during this stage may define the evolutionary outcome of the binary system. We focus on the case in which jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Diego Lopez-Camara , Enrique Moreno Mendez , Fabio De Colle

Disk-fed accretion onto neutron stars can power a wide range of astrophysical sources ranging from X-ray binaries, to accretion powered millisecond pulsars, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, and gamma-ray bursts. A crucial parameter controlling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Kyle Parfrey , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide

A star that passes too close to a massive black hole will be torn apart by tidal forces. The flare of photons emitted during the accretion of the stellar debris is predicted to be observable and candidates of such events have been observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Elmar Koerding , Heino Falcke

We show that the distribution of observed accretion rates is a powerful diagnostic of protoplanetary disc physics. Accretion due to turbulent ("viscous") transport of angular momentum results in a fundamentally different distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 R. Alexander , G. Rosotti , P. J. Armitage , G. J. Herczeg , C. F. Manara , B. Tabone

We propose that sub-Keplerian accretion belts around stars might launch jets. The sub-Keplerian inflow does not form a rotationally supported accretion disk, but it rather reaches the accreting object from a wide solid angle. The basic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ron Schreier , Noam Soker

The jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of the magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and energy from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-01-30 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

Transient radio emission from X-ray binaries is associated with synchrotron emission from collimated jets that escape the system, and accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars (AMXPs) are no exception. Although jets from black hole X-ray binaries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Russell , Rob P. Fender , Peter Jonker , Dipankar Maitra