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Using local three dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations, the nonlinear outcome of gravitational instability in an irradiated protoplanetary disc is investigated in a parameter space of the surface density $\Sigma$ and the radius…

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We have performed 2.5D and 3D simulations of conical jets driven by the rotation of an ordered, large-scale magnetic field in a stratified atmosphere. The simulations cover about three orders of magnitude in distance to capture the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-14 R. Moll , H. C. Spruit , M. Obergaulinger

We construct constant rest-mass sequences of equilibrium models of differentially rotating neutron stars which resemble binary neutron star post-merger remnants. For a more realistic description of the post-merger remnant, we impose that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Georgios Lioutas , Panagiotis Iosif , Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas

We have studied the thermal instabilities in the context of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), addressing the cases of thin and thick (stratified) X-ray illuminated media. For that, we have compared the behaviour of different models in pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Goncalves , S. Collin , A. -M. Dumont

Using high resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the evolution of a self-gravitating multi-phase interstellar medium in the central kiloparsec region of a galactic disk. We find that a gravitationally and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Keiichi Wada , C. A. Norman

Recollimation is a phenomenon of particular importance in the dynamic evolution of jets and in the emission of high-energy radiation. Additionally, the full comprehension of this phenomenon provides insights into fundamental properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 A. Costa , G. Bodo , F. Tavecchio , P. Rossi , P. Coppi , A. Sciaccaluga , S. Boula

The nonlinear evolution of unstable C-type shocks in weakly ionized plasmas is studied by means of time-dependent magnetohydrodynamical simulations. This study is limited to shocks in magnetically dominated plasmas (in which the Alfven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James M. Stone

Context: Astrophysical jets from various sources seem to be stratified, with a fast inner jet and a slower outer jet. As it is likely that the launching mechanism for each component is different, their interface will develop differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Meliani , R. Keppens

Nonlinear two-dimensional internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun are studied. The resulting two-dimensional nonlinear equation has the form of a generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with nonlocal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-23 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh

We use the observed jet boundary transition from parabolic to conical shape, which was earlier discovered as possibly a common effect in active galactic nuclei, to estimate a black hole, a jet and an ambient medium parameters. We explained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-23 E. E. Nokhrina , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev

We study an accretion disk in which three different regions may coexist: MHD turbulent regions, dead zones and gravitationally unstable regions. Although the dead zones are stable, there is some transport due to the Reynolds stress…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Caroline E. J. M. L. J. Terquem

"Wave gravity" refers to a quantum-mechanical gravity theory introduced in two previous papers [1,2]. Although based on the optics of de Broglie waves instead of curved space-time, it agrees with the standard tests of general relativity. As…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Krogh

We present a suite of one-dimensional spherically-symmetric hydrodynamic simulations that study the atomic ionization structure of galactic outflows. We track the ionization state of the outflowing gas with a non-equilibrium atomic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 William J Gray , Evan Scannapieco , Matthew D. Lehnert

We study analytically the development of gravitational instability in an expanding shell having finite thickness. We consider three models for the radial density profile of the shell: (i) an analytic uniform-density model, (ii) a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Richard Wunsch , James E. Dale , Jan Palous , Anthony P. Whitworth

In this paper, we develop an analytical model to investigate the sound generated by the shock-instability interactions (SII) in supersonic round jets, extending our previous two-dimensional planar study to circular configurations. The jet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Binhong Li , Benshuai Lyu

We propose a unified model for jet formation applicable to active galactic nuclei, young stellar objects, and X-ray binaries. In this model, the binding energy released from the accretion disk is primarily stored as turbulence rather than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Chun Xu

We present fully three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of radiative cooling jets propagating into stratified isothermal ambient media with power-law density and pressure distributions. The parameters used are mainly suitable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Mark Birkinshaw

The enormous sizes and variability of emission of radio-loud AGNs arise from the relativistic flows of plasma along two oppositely directed jets. We use the Athena hydrodynamics code to simulate an extensive suite of 54 propagating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Yutong Li , Paul J. Wiita , Terance Schuh , Geena Elghossain , Shaoming Hu

We present three dimensional simulations of the interaction of a light hypersonic jet with an inhomogeneous thermal and turbulently supported disk in an elliptical galaxy, including Radio and multi-band X-ray visualisations. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. S. Sutherland , G. V. Bicknell

We present recent results from spectroscopic data and modeling of the biconical ionized gas in the Seyfert-2 galaxy NGC 4388. A field of ~2.6 x 2.4 kpc centered on the nucleus has been observed by means of the modern technique of integral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Ciroi , M. Contini , P. Rafanelli , G. M. Richter