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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 present results of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations investigating the launching of jets and outflows from a magnetically diffusive accretion disk. The time evolution of the disk structure is self-consistently taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt

Rotating magnetized compact objects and their accretion discs can generate strong toroidal magnetic fields driving highly magnetized plasmas into relativistic jets. Of significant concern, however, has been that a strong toroidal field in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan C. McKinney , Roger D. Blandford

We use axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the launching and collimation of jets emerging from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of accreting magnetized stars. Our analysis shows that the matter flows into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-25 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Richard V. Lovelace

We analyzed the results of non-linear resistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of jet formation to study the acceleration mechanism of axisymmetric, resistive MHD jets. The initial state is a constant angular momentum, polytropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kuwabara , K. Shibata , T. Kudoh , R. Matsumoto

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 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

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

We present the extension of previous two-dimensional simulations of the time-dependent evolution of non-relativistic outflows from the surface of Keplerian accretion disks, to three dimensions. The accretion disk itself is taken to provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Ouyed , D. A. Clarke , R. E. Pudritz

We present three-dimensional (3-D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flow around black holes. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige , Kazunari Shibata

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 have performed a fully three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of jet formation from a thin accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole with a free-falling corona. The initial simulation results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. -I. Nishikawa , G. Richardson , S. Koide , K. Shibata , T. Kudoh , P. Hardee , G. J. Fishman

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 a fully three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of jet formation from a thin accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole with a free-falling corona. The initial simulation results…

We present results of the first ever three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the accretion-ejection structure. We investigate the 3D evolution of jets launched symmetrically from single stars but also jets from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Christian Fendt

The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate the vertical magnetic field in the centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor V. Igumenshchev

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

Disc-winds originating from the inner parts of accretion discs are considered as the basic component of magnetically collimated outflows. The only available analytical MHD solutions to describe disc-driven jets are those characterized by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthias Stute , Jose Gracia , Nektarios Vlahakis , Kanaris Tsinganos , Andrea Mignone , Silvano Massaglia

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

Accretion disks and astrophysical jets are used to model many active astrophysical objects, viz., young stars, relativistic stars, and active galactic nuclei. In this paper we present self-consistent time-dependent simulations of supersonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Zanni , A. Ferrari , R. Rosner , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia
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