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The stability of thin homogeneous gaseous disk with step discontinuity of velocity and density profile has been investigated analytically in the limitary case of large compressibility and numerically at spatially separated velocity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Bezborodov , J. V. Mustsevaya , V. V. Mustsevoy

A number of observations have revealed atomic and/or molecular lines in active galaxies hosting jets and outflows. Line widths indicate outward motions of hundreds to few thousands of kilometers per second. They appear associated to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Manel Perucho

Ionization cones and relativistic jets give us one of the most large-scale example of active galactic nuclei (AGN) influence on the surrounding gas environment in galaxies and beyond. The study of ionization cones makes it possible not only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Alexei V. Moiseev , Aleksandrina A. Smirnova

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) show a range of morphologies and dynamical properties, which are determined not only by parameters intrinsic to the central engine but also their interaction with the surrounding environment. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell , Yuan Li

Energy deposition by active galactic nuclei jets into the ambient medium can affect galaxy formation and evolution, the cooling of gas flows at the centres of galaxy clusters, and the growth of the supermassive black holes. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg

A jet of non-Brownian particles confined in a thin cell and driven by gravitational force is studied both numerically and theoretically. We present a theoretical scheme aimed to describe such a system in the Stokes regime. We focus on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alejandra Alvarez , Eric Clement , Rodrigo Soto

Context. We consider a simple self-gravitating disk, made of two fluid components characterized by different effective thermal speeds and interacting with one another only through gravity; two-component models of this type have often been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giuseppe Bertin , Antonio Cava

When a thin stream of aqueous sodium alginate is extruded into a reacting calcium chloride bath, it polymerizes into a soft elastic tube that spontaneously forms helical coils due to the ambient fluid drag. We quantify the onset of this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-04 Aditi Chakrabarti , Salem Al-Mosleh , L. Mahadevan

Jet precession is sometimes invoked to explain asymmetries in radio galaxy (RG) jets and "X/S/Z-shape" radio galaxies, caused by the presence of a binary black hole companion to the source active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-08 Chris Nolting , Jay Ball , Tri M. Nguyen

High energy emission can be produced in the interaction sites of both galactic and extragalactic jets with the surrounding medium. We have developed a radiative model that accounts for the continuous injection of relativistic electrons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-14 P. Bordas , V. Bosch-Ramon , M. Perucho

We examine all possible stationary, optically thick, geometrically thin accretion disc models relevant for active galactic nuclei (AGN) and identify the physical regimes in which they are stable against the thermal-viscous hydrogen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Burderi , A. R. King , E. Szuszkiewicz

The stability problem of the rotation induced electrostatic wave in extragalactic jets is presented. Solving a set of equations describing dynamics of a relativistic plasma flow of AGN jets, an expression of the instability rate has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Osmanov

The interstellar medium of the radio galaxy IC 5063 is highly perturbed by an AGN jet expanding in the gaseous disc of the galaxy. We model this interaction with relativistic hydrodynamic simulations and multiphase initial conditions for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Alex Y. Wagner , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raffaella Morganti , Tom Oosterloo , Nicole Nesvadba , Ralph S. Sutherland

A cocoon is a by-product of a propagating jet that results from shock heating at the jet head. Herein, considering simultaneous cocoon formation, we study the stability of relativistic jets propagating through the uniform ambient medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-03 Jin Matsumoto , Youhei Masada

We perform 3D radiation hydrodynamic local shearing box simulations to study the outcome of gravitational instability (GI) in optically thick Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) accretion disks. GI develops when the Toomre parameter QT \leq 1, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Yi-Xian Chen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jeremy Goodman , Eve C. Ostriker

Jets are observed in young stellar objects, X-ray sources, active galactic nuclei (AGN). The mechanisms of jet formation may be divided in regular, acting continuously for a long time, and explosive ones. Continuous mechanisms are related…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-16 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We explore the possibility of formation of steady internal shocks in jets around black holes. We consider a fluid described by a relativistic equation of state, flowing about the axis of symmetry ($\theta=0$) in a Schwarzschild metric. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Mukesh Vyas , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Jets are observed to stir up multi-phase turbulence in the inter-stellar medium as well as far beyond the host galaxy. Here we present detailed simulations of this process. We evolve the hydrodynamics equations with optically thin cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 Martin G. H. Krause

We describe the dynamical evolution of hot spots velocity, pressure and mass density in radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), taking proper account of (1) the conservations of the mass, momentum, and kinetic energy flux of the unshocked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Kawakatu , M. Kino