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In a comprehensive convergence study, we investigate the computational conditions necessary to resolve disk formation and jet-launching processes, and analyze possible caveats. We explore the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) processes of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Anders Kölligan , Rolf Kuiper

We study the H$\alpha$ emission from jets using two-dimensional axisymmetrical simulations. We compare the emission obtained from hydrodynamic (HD) simulations with that obtained from magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. The magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabio De Colle , Alejandro Raga

We present the first-ever simulations of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stellar winds coupled with disc-driven jets where the resistive and viscous accretion disc is self-consistently described. The transmagnetosonic, collimated MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabien Casse , Zakaria Meliani , C. Sauty

We present 2.5-D global, ideal MHD simulations of magnetically and rotationally driven protostellar jets from Keplerian accretion discs, wherein only the initial magnetic field strength at the inner radius of the disc, $B_{\rm i}$, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Jon P. Ramsey , David A. Clarke

We present fully three-dimensional hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical simulations of supersonic, radiative cooling jets propagating into homogeneous and stratified environments based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics technique.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Gouveia Dal Pino , A. H. Cerqueira

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…

We have developed a modified form of the equations of smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics which are stable in the presence of very steep density gradients. Using this formalism, we have performed simulations of the collapse of magnetised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-29 Benjamin T. Lewis , Matthew R. Bate , Daniel J. Price

In resistive and viscous magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations we obtain axial jets launched from the innermost magnetosphere of a star-disk system. We found that in a part of the parameter space continuous asymmetric jets, which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Aleksandra Kotek , Miljenko Čemeljić , Włodek Kluźniak , Deepika A. Bollimpalli

We consider axisymmetric relativistic jets with a toroidal magnetic field and an ultrarelativistic equation of state, with the goal of studying the lateral structure of jets whose pressure is matched to the pressure of the medium through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Nadia L. Zakamska , Mitchell C. Begelman , Roger D. Blandford

By a systematic method we construct general classes of exact and selfconsistent axisymmetric MHD solutions describing flows which originate at the near environment of a central gravitating astrophysical object. The unifying scheme contains…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos

We present numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a magnetized accretion disk launching trans-Alfvenic jets. These simulations, performed in a 2.5 dimensional time-dependent polytropic resistive MHD framework, model a resistive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabien Casse , Rony Keppens

We investigate the launching and stability of extragalactic jets through nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and linear eigenmode analysis. In the simulations of jet evolution, a small-scale equilibrium magnetic arcade is twisted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 C. S. Carey , C. R. Sovinec

We present magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a resistive accretion disk continuously launching transmagnetosonic, collimated jets. We time-evolve the full set of magnetohydrodynamic equations, but neglect radiative losses in the energetics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabien Casse , Rony Keppens

We have performed 3-D numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet experiments to study the instabilities associated with strongly toroidal magnetic fields and determine if such magnetic configurations in jets are as unstable as similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Thomsen , A. Nordlund

We present numerical simulations of cold, axisymmetric, magnetically driven relativistic outflows. The outflows are initially sub-Alfv\'enic and Poynting flux-dominated, with total--to--rest-mass energy flux ratio up to $\mu \sim 620$. To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

We present MHD simulations exploring the launching, acceleration and collimation of jets and disk winds. The evolution of the disk structure is consistently taken into account. Extending our earlier studies, we now consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt , Somayeh Sheikhnezami

A 3D simulation of a non-relativistic, magnetically driven jet propagating in a stratified atmosphere is presented, covering about three decades in distance and two decades in sideways expansion. The simulation captures the jet acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Moll

In broad astrophysical contexts of large-scale gravitational collapses and outflows and as a basis for various further astrophysical applications, we formulate and investigate a theoretical problem of self-similar MHD for a non-rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Wei-Gang Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

The paradigm in which magnetic fields play a crucial role in launching/collimating outflows in many astrophysical objects continues to gain support. However, semi-analytical models including the effect of magnetic fields on the dynamics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Chiara Ceccobello , Yuri Cavecchi , Martin H. M. Heemskerk , Sera Markoff , Peter Polko , David L. Meier

We have performed self-consistent 2.5-dimensional nonsteady MHD numerical simulations of jet formation as long as possible, including the dynamics of accretion disks. Although the previous nonsteady MHD simulations for astrophysical jets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ahmed Ibrahim , Kazunari Shibata