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A new kind of dynamo utilizing flowing laboratory plasmas has been identified. Conversion of plasma kinetic energy to magnetic energy is verified numerically by kinematic dynamo simulations for magnetic Reynolds numbers above 210. As…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhehui Wang , Vladimir I. Pariev , Cris W. Barnes , Daniel C. Barnes

We present a general formulation of special-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and derive exact radially self-similar solutions for axisymmetric outflows from strongly magnetized, rotating compact objects. We generalize previous work by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nektarios Vlahakis , Arieh Konigl

A stationary self-consistent outflow of a magnetised relativistic plasma from a rotating object with an initially monopole-like magnetic field is investigated in the ideal MHD approximation under the condition $\sigma/U_0^2 >1$, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Bogovalov

Matter falling onto black holes, {also called} accretion discs, emit intense high-energy radiation. Accretion discs during {hard to hard intermediate} spectral states also emit bipolar outflows. Radiation drag was supposed to impose the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Raj Kishor Joshi , Sanjit Debnath , Priyesh Kumar Tripathi , Momd Saleem Khan

Relativistic equation of state and velocity comparable with the speed of light are included in consideration of a superfluid rotating in a cylindrical container. Minimizing the free energy, we derive the equation of motion. It admits an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Vlasov

Acoustic perturbations in a parallel relativistic flow of an inviscid fluid are considered. The general expression for the frequency of the sound waves in a uniformly (with zero shear) moving medium is derived. It is shown that relativity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Rogava , V. I. Berezhiani , S. M. Mahajan

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. For obtaining reliable simulation results in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Ayako Ishii , Naofumi Ohnishi , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Shoichi Yamada

We study the radial transport of cold gas within simulated disk galaxies at cosmic noon, aiming at distinguishing between disk instability and accretion along cold streams from the cosmic web as its driving mechanism. Disks are selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Omri Ginzburg , Reinhard Genzel

Jets and outflows are known to form out of advective accretion flows around black holes. Hard photons from the centrifugal barrier directly hit the electrons and deposit momentum on them. For optically thick flows such deposition is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Shadows are often observed in transition disks, which can result from obscuring by materials closer to the star, such as a misaligned inner disk. While shadows leave apparent darkened emission as observational signatures, they have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

Light experiences a non-uniformly moving medium as an effective gravitational field, endowed with an effective metric tensor $\tilde{g}^{\mu \nu}=\eta^{\mu \nu}+(n^2-1)u^\mu u^\nu$, $n$ being the refractive index and $u^\mu$ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , G. Halnes

The classical problem of steady rarefied gas flow past an infinitely thin circular disk is revisited, with particular emphasis on the gas behavior near the disk edge. The uniform flow is assumed to be perpendicular to the disk surface. An…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-26 Takuma Tomita , Satoshi Taguchi , Tetsuro Tsuji

Irrotational relativistic vortex configurations in uniform subsonic motion with respect to a surrounding perfect fluid are analysed for the purpose of application to superfluid layers in neutron stars. Asymptotic solutions are found by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brandon Carter , David Langlois , Denis Priou

We study asymptotically slowly varying perturbations of the AdS black brane in Einstein's gravity with a negative cosmological constant. We allow both the induced metric and the Brown-York stress tensor at a given radial cut-off slice to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-04 Stanislav Kuperstein , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

We present a formalism of the dynamics of internal shocks in relativistic jets where the source has a time-dependent injection velocity and mass-loss rate. The variation of the injection velocity produces a two-shock wave structure, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Cantó , S. Lizano , M. Fernández-López , R. F. González , A. Hernández-Gómez

We consider the radiative acceleration to relativistic bulk velocities of a cold, optically thin plasma which is exposed to an external source of gamma-rays. The flow is driven by radiative momentum input to the gas, the accelerating force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piero Madau , Christopher Thompson

There are now several types of relativistic flows in astrophysical settings. The foremost examples are jets and disks orbiting spinning black holes, pulsar winds and gamma ray bursts. As discussed at this meeting, these flows exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. Blandford

The dynamics of a relativistic blast wave propagating through magnetized medium is considered taking into account possible inhomogeneities of density and magnetic field and additional energy supply. Under the simplifying assumption of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov

We formulate and solve by semi-analytic means the axisymmetric equilibria of relativistic self-similar disks of infinitesimal vertical thickness. These disks are supported in the horizontal directions against their self-gravity by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mike J. Cai , Frank H. Shu

Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) are an established feature in X-ray spectra of AGNs. According to the standard picture, they are launched at accretion disc scales with relativistic velocities, up to 0.3-0.4 c. Their high kinetic power is enough…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 A. Luminari , F. Nicastro , M. Elvis , E. Piconcelli , F. Tombesi , L. Zappacosta , F. Fiore