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In this Letter, we present a new self-consistent theory for the production of the relativistic outflows observed from radio-loud black hole candidates and active galaxies as a result of particle acceleration in hot, viscous accretion disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 Peter A. Becker , Santabrata Das , Truong Le

We present numerical solutions of the 2D relativistic hydrodynamics equations describing the deceleration and expansion of highly relativistic conical jets, of opening angles 0.05<theta<0.2, propagating into a medium of uniform density. Jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 N. Wygoda , E. Waxman , D. Frail

We study the (local) propagation of plane waves in a relativistic, non-dissipative, two-fluid system, allowing for a relative velocity in the "background" configuration. The main aim is to analyze relativistic two-stream instability. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-29 L. Samuelsson , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

We present a criterion for a shock wave existence in relativistic magnetic hydrodynamics with an arbitrary (possibly non-convex) equation of state. The criterion has the form of algebraic inequality that involves equation of state of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Zhdanov , P. V. Tytarenko , M. S. Borshch

Outflows are observed in a variety of astrophysical sources. Remarkably, ultra-fast ($v\geq 0.1c$), outflows in the UV and X-ray bands are often seen in AGNs. Depending on their energy and mass outflow rate, respectively $\dot{E}_{out},…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Luminari , F. Tombesi , E. Piconcelli , F. Nicastro , K. Fukumura , D. Kazanas , F. Fiore , L. Zappacosta

We calculate the temporal evolution of distributions of relativistic electrons subject to synchrotron and adiabatic processes and Fermi-like acceleration in shocks. The shocks result from Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the jet. Shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Micono , N. Zurlo , S. Massaglia , A. Ferrari , D. B. Melrose

We study how the matter dispersed when a supermassive black hole tidally disrupts a star joins an accretion flow. Combining a relativistic hydrodynamic simulation of the stellar disruption with a relativistic hydrodynamics simulation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Hotaka Shiokawa , Julian H. Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

General relativistic superfluid neutron stars have a significantly more intricate dynamics than their ordinary fluid counterparts. Superfluidity allows different superfluid (and superconducting) species of particles to have independent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. L. Comer , R. Joynt

We report on the development of Mezcal-SRHD, a new adaptive mesh refinement, special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) code, developed with the aim of studying the highly relativistic flows in Gamma-Ray Burst sources. The SRHD equations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio De Colle , Jonathan Granot , Diego Lopez-Camara , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We use a hydrodynamic model to study the space-time evolution transverse to the beam direction in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions with nonzero impact parameters. We focus on the influence of early pressure on the development of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 P. F. Kolb , J. Sollfrank , P. V. Ruuskanen , U. Heinz

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

We present exact, analytic and simple solutions of relativistic perfect fluid hydrodynamics. The solutions allow us to calculate the rapidity distribution of the particles produced at the freeze-out, and fit them to the measured rapidity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Csanad , M. I. Nagy , T. Csorgo

This paper describes a multidimensional hydrodynamic code which can be used for the studies of relativistic astrophysical flows. The code solves the special relativistic hydrodynamic equations as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez , Refik Kayali

We propose a self-similar (SS) solution to hydrodynamic non-relativistic flow behind a spherical strong blast wave (BW) passing through a homogeneous plasma with efficient relativistic particle acceleration at the shock front. The flow is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-20 Yiran Zhang , Edison Liang , Siming Liu

This paper performs a semi-analytic study of relativistic blast waves in the context of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Although commonly used in a wide range of analytical and numerical studies, the equation of state (EOS) with a constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Z. Lucas Uhm

We investigate superfluidity, and the mechanism for creation of quantized vortices, in the relativistic regime. The general framework is a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in curved spacetime for a complex scalar field, whose phase dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-24 Chi Xiong , Michael R. R. Good , Yulong Guo , Xiaopei Liu , Kerson Huang

A formalism to study the mode-by-mode response to the energy deposition of external hard partons propagating in a relativistic fluid is developed, based on a semi-analytical solution of conformal fluid-dynamics. The soft particle production…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Li Yan , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The early phase of the hydrodynamic evolution following collision of two stars is analyzed. Two strong shocks propagate at a constant velocity (which is a small fraction of the velocity of the approaching stars) from the contact surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Doron Kushnir , Boaz Katz

A spherical blast wave with relativistic velocity can be described by a similarity solution, that is used for theoretical models of gamma-ray bursts. We consider the linear stability of such a relativistic blast wave propagating into a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jun Ogura , Yasufumi Kojima

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, gravitational waves are generated by the collisions of bubble walls and by the bulk motions caused in the fluid. A sizeable signal may result from fast-moving walls. In this work we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand