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Rotating black holes without equatorial reflection symmetry can naturally arise in effective low-energy theories of fundamental quantum gravity, in particular, when parity-violating interactions are introduced. Adopting a theory-agnostic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-11 Che-Yu Chen , Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang

Accreting black holes produce collimated outflows, or jets, that traverse many orders of magnitude in distance, accelerate to relativistic velocities, and collimate into tight opening angles. Of these, perhaps the least understood is jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera B. Markoff

The magnetorotational instability(MRI) in the Kerr spacetime is studied on a 3+1 viewpoint. The Maxwell's equations are expressed in a circularly orbiting observer's frame that co-rotates with matter in Keplerian orbits. There exist large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Yokosawa , T. Inui

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

The present work presents analytically constructed equilibrium structures of charged perfect fluids orbiting Kerr Black holes embedded in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field. Our focus is on the effect of the non-constant angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Audrey Trova

We present numerical simulations of the axisymmetric accretion of a massive magnetized plasma torus on a rotating black hole. We use a realistic equation of state, which takes into account neutrino cooling and energy loss due to nucleus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxim V. Barkov , Anton N. Baushev

We present a detailed analysis of the magnetic field structure found in general relativistic 3D MHD simulations of accreting tori in the Kerr metric with different black hole spins. Among the properties analyzed are the field strength as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shigenobu Hirose , Julian H. Krolik , Jean-Pierre De Villiers , John F. Hawley

We study the global structure of optically thin, advection dominated, magnetized accretion flow around black holes. We consider the magnetic field to be turbulent in nature and dominated by the toroidal component. With this, we obtain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Biplob Sarkar , Santabrata Das

A simple look at the steady high-energy Universe reveals a clear correlation with outflows generated around compact objects (winds and jets). In the case of relativistic jets, they are thought to be produced as a consequence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-03 Manel Perucho

We consider accretion of charged test matter by rotating, magnetic black holes and discuss a number of aspects in which the interaction of the angular momentum contained in the electromagnetic field and the spin of the hole plays a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Conor Dyson , David Pereñiguez

We present the results of axisymmetric simulations of MRI-driven accretion onto a rapidly rotating, magnetized star accreting in the propeller regime. The stellar magnetosphere corotates with the star, forming a centrifugal barrier at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Richard V. E. Lovelace

We write down and solve equations describing steady state, optically thin, advection-dominated accretion onto a Kerr black hole. The mean flow, described by the relativistic fluid equations, is axisymmetric and vertically averaged. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles F. Gammie , Robert Popham

While the motion of particles near a rotating, electrically-neutral (Kerr), and charged (Kerr--Newman) black hole is always strictly regular, a perturbation in the gravitational or the electromagnetic field generally leads to chaos. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-28 O. Kopáček , V. Karas

Accreting black holes are responsible for producing the fastest, most powerful outflows of matter in the Universe. The formation process of powerful jets close to black holes is poorly understood, and the conditions leading to jet formation…

We propose a simple analytical jet model of magnetic jets, in which radially-averaged profiles of main physical quantities are obtained based on conservation laws and some results of published GRMHD jet simulations. We take into account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Lukasz Stawarz , Marek Sikora , Krzysztof Nalewajko

General relativistic, axisymmetric flow of low angular momentum accretion around a Kerr black hole can have certain geometric configuration where the flow is maintained in hydrostatic equilibrium along the vertical direction (direction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Pratik Tarafdar , Susovan Maity , Tapas K. Das

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

In general relativity, astrophysical black holes are uniquely described by the Kerr metric. Observational tests of the Kerr nature of these compact objects and, hence, of general relativity, require a metric that encompasses a broader class…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Tim Johannsen

Steady axisymmetric outflows originating at the hot coronal magnetosphere of a Schwarzschild black hole and surrounding accretion disk are studied in the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The assumption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Meliani , C. Sauty , N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos , E. Trussoni

We propose a model of magnetic connection (MC) of a black hole with its surrounding accretion disc based on large-scale magnetic field. The MC gives rise to transport of energy and angular momentum between the black hole and the disc, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhao-Ming Gan , Ding-Xiong Wang , Wei-Hua Lei