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The classic accepted view of the heliosphere is a quiescent, comet-like shape aligned in the direction of the Sun's travel through the interstellar medium (ISM) extending for 1000's of AUs (AU: astronomical unit). Here we show, based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Opher , J. F. Drake , B. Zieger , T. I. Gombosi

We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Porth , C. Fendt

Magnetospheres of many astrophysical objects can be accurately described by the low-inertia (or "force-free") limit of MHD. We present a new numerical method for solution of equations of force-free relativistic MHD based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anatoly Spitkovsky

Transitional protostellar disks have inner cavities heavily depleted in dust and gas, yet most show signs of ongoing accretion, often at rates comparable to full disks. We show that recent constraints on the gas surface density in a few…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Lile Wang , Jeremy J. Goodman

All numerical solutions of the pulsar magnetosphere over the past 25 years show closed-line regions that end a significant distance inside the light cylinder, and manifest thick strongly dissipative separatrix surfaces instead of thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Ioannis Dimitropoulos , Evaggelos Chaniadakis , Ioannis Contopoulos

The evolution of the non-thermal emission emitted by pulsar wind nebulae is generally calculated using spatially-independent particle transport models. Although useful, these models implicitly assume that the source of non-thermal particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Michael Vorster , Harm Moraal

I survey recent successes in the application of relativistic MHD and force-free electrodynamics to the modeling of the pulsars' rotational energy loss mechanism as well as to the structure and emission characteristics of Pulsar Wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-09 Jonathan Arons

The problem of three-dimensional combined magnetic and velocity shear driven instabilities of a compressible magnetized jet modeled with a plane neutral/current double vortex sheet in the framework of the resistive magnetohydrodynamics is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lapo Bettarini , Simone Landi , Marco Velli , Pasquale Londrillo

We present a numerical study of the properties of the flow produced by the collision of a magnetized anisotropic pulsar wind with the circumbinary environment. We focus on studying the impact of the high wind magnetization on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-19 Sergey V. Bogovalov , Dmitry Khangulyan , Alexander V. Koldoba , Galina V. Ustyugova , Felix Aharonian

Astrophysical jets, launched from the immediate vicinity of accreting black holes, carry away large amounts of power in a form of bulk kinetic energy of jet particles and electromagnetic flux. Here we consider a simple analytical model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Dominika Ł. Król , Łukasz Stawarz , Mitchell C. Begelman , José-María Martí , Manel Perucho , Bohdan A. Petrenko

We present the results of a series of time-dependent numerical simulations of cold, magnetocentrifugally launched winds from accretion disks. Our simulations span four and half decades of mass loading; in the context of a disk with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeffrey M. Anderson , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Roger D. Blandford

We review the recent advances in the pulsar high-energy $\gamma$-ray observation and the electrodynamics of the pulsar magnetospheres from the early vacuum model to the recent plasma-filled models by the numerical simulations. The numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang , Li Zhang

Giant planets that reside in close proximity to their host stars are subject to extreme irradiation, which gives rise to thermal ionization of trace Alkali metals in their atmospheres. On objects where the atmospheric electrical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Konstantin Batygin , Sabine Stanley

A new generalized St\"ormer problem is proposed. The charged particles motion around a rotating axisymmetric magnetic planet is studied using various conditions mainly in planetary magnetospheres. It is shown that the existence of specific…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-25 Amina Leghmouche , Noureddine Mebarki

Bow shock pulsar wind nebulae are a large class of non-thermal synchrotron sources associated to old pulsars, that have emerged from their parent supernova remnant and are directly interacting with the interstellar medium. Within this class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Barbara Olmi , Niccolò Bucciantini

Magnetic fields are fundamental to the dynamics of both accretion disks and the jets that they often drive. We review the basic physics of these phenomena, the past and current efforts to model them numerically with an emphasis on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 John F. Hawley , Christian Fendt , Martin Hardcastle , Elena Nokhrina , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Strong toroidal magnetic fields generated in stellar collapse can generate magneto-centrifugal jets in analogy to those found in simulations of black hole accretion and explain why all core collapse supernovae are found to be substantially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Craig Wheeler , David L. Meier , James R. Wilson

In this poster we present the structure of an axisymmetric, force-free magnetosphere of a twisted, aligned rotating dipole within a corotating plasma-filled magnetosphere. We explore various profiles for the twist. We find that as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Dimitris Ntotsikas , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We solve the two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of black hole accretion with the presence of magnetic field. The field includes a turbulent component, whose role is represented by the viscosity, and a large-scale ordered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Amin Mosallanezhad , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

In this work, we have obtained exact solutions of Einstein equations for static and axially symmetric magnetized matter, specifically in plane-symmetric and almost-plane symmetric cases. Although these solutions impose constraints on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Ernesto Contreras , Pedro Bargueno , Gretel Quintero , Aurora Perez-Martinez , Diana Alvear