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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

The interaction of a rotating star's magnetic field with a surrounding plasma disk lies at the heart of many questions posed by neutron stars in X-ray binaries. We consider the opening of stellar magnetic flux due to differential rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-14 Kyle Parfrey , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Cosmic ray pressure gradients transfer energy and momentum to extraplanar gas in disk galaxies, potentially driving significant mass loss as galactic winds. This may be particularly important for launching high-velocity outflows of "cool"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 S. Alwin Mao , Eve C. Ostriker

By performing local three-dimensional MHD simulations of stratified accretion disks, we investigate disk winds driven by MHD turbulence. Initially given weak vertical magnetic fields are effectively amplified by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. K. Suzuki , S. Inutsuka

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

The magnetic field due to an axially symmetric, hot and highly conducting plasma, taken as an ideal magnetohydrodynamic fluid, surrounding a slow rotating compact gravitational object is studied within the context of Einstein-Maxwell field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-02 Babur M. Mirza

We show that when the gravitational force is correctly calculated in dealing with the vertical hydrostatic equilibrium of black hole accretion disks, the relationship that is valid for geometrically thin disks, i.e., $c_s/\Omega_K H =$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

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

I show that the self-consistent solution of the problem of MHD plasma flow in magnetosphere of an oblique rotator with an initially split-monopole magnetic field is reduced to the solution of the similar problem for the axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. V. Bogovalov

The evolution of protoplanetary discs and the related process of planet formation is regulated by angular momentum transport and mass-loss processes. Over the past decade, the paradigm of viscosity has been challenged and MHD disc winds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Benoît Tabone , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Alexander J. Cridland , Philip J. Armitage , Giuseppe Lodato

The formation of astrophysical objects of different nature and size, from black holes to gaseous giant planets, involves a disk-jet system, where the disk drives the mass accretion onto a central compact object and the jet is a fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-02 Luca Moscadelli , Alberto Sanna , Henrik Beuther , André Oliva , Rolf Kuiper

In a series of our previous works, a model of radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAFs) in a global magnetic field (so called resistive RIAF model) has proved its ability to account for many physical processes taking place in such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Osamu Kaburaki

We examine the angular momentum transport properties of disks composed of macroscopic particles whose velocity dispersions are externally enhanced (``stirred''). Our simple Boltzmann equation model serves as an analogy for unmagnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eliot Quataert , Eugene I. Chiang

We examine the propagation of several CMEs with well-observed flux rope signatures in the field of view of the SECCHI coronagraphs aboard the STEREO satellites using the GCS fitting method of Thernisien, Vourlidas \& Howard (2009). We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Prasad Subramanian , K. P. Arunbabu , Angelos Vourlidas , Adwiteey Mauriya

We investigate the centrifugal acceleration in an axisymmetric pulsar magnetosphere under the ideal-MHD approximation. We solved the field-aligned equations of motion for flows inside the current sheet with finite thickness. We find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Shinpei Shibata , Shota Kisaka

(abridged) We continue our study of weakly ionized protostellar discs that are threaded by a large-scale magnetic field and power a centrifugally driven wind. It has been argued that in several protostellar systems such a wind transports a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Salmeron , A. Königl , M. Wardle

We present the effects of ordered large scale magnetic field on the structure of supercritical accretion flow in the presence of outflow. In the cylindrical coordinates ($r, \varphi,z$), We write the 1.5 dimensional, the steady state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Maryam Ghasemnezhad , Shahram Abbassi

The centrifugal acceleration is due to the rotating poloidal magnetic field in the magnetosphere creates the electric field which is orthogonal to the magnetic field. Charged particles with finite cyclotron radii can move along the electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Ya. N. Istomin , A. A. Gunya

We compare the stellar wind torque calculated in a previous work (Paper II) to the spin-up and spin-down torques expected to arise from the magnetic interaction between a slowly rotating ($\sim 10$% of breakup) pre-main-sequence star and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean Matt , Ralph E. Pudritz

Force-free electrodynamics describes the electromagnetic field of the magnetically dominated plasma found near pulsars and active black holes, but gives no information about the underlying particles that ultimately produce the observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Morifumi Mizuno , Samuel E. Gralla , Alexander Philippov