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Measurements of the various plasma configurations produced by a planar magnetized coaxial gun provide insight into the magnetic topology evolution resulting from magnetic helicity injection. Important features of the experiments are a very…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Hsu , P. M. Bellan

Magnetic fields, which are undoubtedly present in extragalactic jets and responsible for the observed synchrotron radiation, can affect the morphology and dynamics of the jets and their interaction with the ambient cluster medium. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-13 V. Gaibler , M. Krause , M. Camenzind

Massive stars are crucial building blocks of galaxies and the universe, as production sites of heavy elements and as stirring agents and energy providers through stellar winds and supernovae. The field of magnetic massive stars has seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Georges Meynet

Magnetic fields are amplified as a consequence of galaxy formation and turbulence-driven dynamos. Galaxy mergers can potentially amplify the magnetic fields from their progenitors, making the magnetic fields dynamically important. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-05 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

One of the tools that can provide evidence about the existence of helical magnetic fields in AGN is the observation of rotation measure gradients across the jet. Such observations have been previously made successfully, proving that such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. C. Algaba

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

Young stellar objects/planetary nebula outflow anisotropies usually involve wind-wind interactions and magnetic collimation, but detailed structures of wind and magnetic fields inside collimation region remain undetermined. We numerically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Tao Tao , Guangyue Hu , Ruxin Li , Zhizhan Xu , Jian Zheng

Hypersonic, highly collimated, mass outflows ({\it jets}) are a ubiquitous phenomena in astrophysics. While the character of the jets differ, many exhibit some form of quasi-periodic clumping indicating the jet source is episodic or {\it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Adam Frank , Thomas A. Gardiner

We consider dynamo action under the combined influence of turbulence and large-scale shear in sheared jets. Shear can stretch turbulent magnetic field lines in such a way that even turbulent motions showing mirror symmetry become suitable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Urpin

Both in the Faraday Rotation Measure and the intrinsic polarization angle, new features are revealed to indicate a helical magnetic field operating along the jet of the bright active galactic nuclei 3C 273. The helical field has been…

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been applied to investigate the interrelation of a central stellar magnetosphere and stellar wind with a surrounding magnetized disk outflow and how the overall formation of a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christian Fendt

This work presents three dimensional, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and early evolution of a subgroup of planetary nebulae that exhibit a variety of point-symmetric structures. For bipolar nebulae, the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 G. García-Segura , J. A. López

Under certain conditions an intense kinetic plasma jet is observed to emerge from the apex of laboratory simulations of coronal plasma loops. Analytic and numerical models show that these jets result from a particle orbit instability in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. P. Tripathi , P. M. Bellan , G. S. Yun

The origin of the large-scale poloidal magnetic field required to power relativistic jets in collapsars remains uncertain. While such a field may be inherited during PNS collapse, the efficiency of this process is unclear, motivating an in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Ho-Sang Chan , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matteo Cantiello , Mathieu Renzo

Investigating the magnetic field structure in the innermost regions of relativistic jets is fundamental to shed light on the crucial physical processes giving rise to the jet formation, as well as to its extraordinary radiation output up to…

Observations of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) systems reveal a wide diversity of jet properties, from well-collimated bipolar jets to uni-polar jets and systems with no detectable jet. Both prograde and counter-rotating jets are reported,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yisheng Tu , Zhi-Yun Li , Zhaohuan Zhu , Kass Bell

Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes are among the most powerful and luminous astrophysical systems in Universe. We propose that the open magnetic field lines through the black hole, which drive a strongly magnetized jet, may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Haocheng Zhang , Dimitrios Giannios

Observations have shown the existence of narrow, very long, straight jets emitted by some newly forming stars (1). It is highly likely that stars forming in the plane of a spiral galaxy do so in the presence of an almost uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Howard D. Greyber

A popular model for jet collimation is associated with the presence of a large-scale and predominantly toroidal magnetic field originating from the central engine (a star, a black hole, or an accretion disk). Besides the problem of how such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

The polarization curve of GRB 020813 is discussed and compared to different models for the structure, evolution and magnetisation properties of the jet and the interstellar medium onto which the fireball impacts. GRB 020813 is best suited…