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We investigate the properties of a hot accretion flow bathed in a poloidal magnetic field. We consider an axisymmetric viscous resistive flow in the steady state configuration. We assume the dominant mechanism of energy dissipation is due…

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We present the results of time-dependent, numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a realistic young stellar object outflow model with the addition of a disk-associated magnetic field. The outflow produced by the magnetic star-disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Matt , R. M. Winglee , K. -H. Bohm

We present an analytical model for the magnetic flux surfaces for rapidly rotating magnetized young stellar objects which is based on ideal, stationary, axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics. The resulting cold wind solutions reproduce observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Breitmoser , M. Camenzind

We investigate outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of rotating magnetized stars in cases where the magnetic field of a star is bunched into an X-type configuration using axisymmetric and full 3D MHD simulations. Such configuration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

A new type of wind - a conical wind - has been discovered in axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the disk-magnetosphere interaction in cases where the magnetic field of the star is bunched into an X-type configuration. Such a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-28 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

We explore a new, efficient mechanism that can power toroidally magnetized jets up to two to three times their original terminal velocity after they enter a self-similar phase of magnetic acceleration. Underneath the elongated outflow lobe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Chun-Fan Liu

We carry out the self-similar solutions of viscous-resistive accretion flows around a magnetized compact object. We consider an axisymmetric, rotating, isotheral steady accretion flow which contains a poloidal magnetic field of the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 J. Ghanbari , F. Salehi , S. Abbassi

We present the first-ever simulations of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stellar winds coupled with disc-driven jets where the resistive and viscous accretion disc is self-consistently described. The transmagnetosonic, collimated MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabien Casse , Zakaria Meliani , C. Sauty

We present self-similar solutions that describe the gravitational collapse of rotating, isothermal, magnetic molecular-cloud cores, relevant to the formation of rotationally supported protostellar disks. This work focuses on the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Arieh Konigl

Accretion disks and astrophysical jets are used to model many active astrophysical objects, viz., young stars, relativistic stars, and active galactic nuclei. In this paper we present self-consistent time-dependent simulations of supersonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Zanni , A. Ferrari , R. Rosner , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia

The existence of outflow in accretion flows is confirmed by observations and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. In this paper, we study outflows of accretion flows in the presence of resistivity and toroidal magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei , Azam Mollatayefeh

The powerful narrow jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of a magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , H. Li , G. V. Ustyugova , M. M. Romanova , S. A. Colgate

The launching of magnetohydrodynamic outflows from accretion disks is considered. We formulate a model for the local vertical structure of a thin disk threaded by a poloidal magnetic field of dipolar symmetry. The model consists of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Mario Livio

We discuss recent progress in understanding the launching of outflows/jets from the disc-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars. In most of the discussed models the interior of the disc is assumed to have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , P. Lii

We present numerical simulations of axisymmetric, magnetically driven relativistic jets. To eliminate the dissipative effects induced by a free boundary with an ambient medium we assume that the flow is confined by a rigid wall of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Komissarov , M. V. Barkov , N. Vlahakis , A. Konigl

In order to be in a long-lived configuration, the density in a fluid disk should be constant along streamlines to prevent compressional (PdV) work from being done cyclically around every orbit. In a pure Kepler potential, flow along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. S. Statler

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 study a self-similar circulation model for protostellar bipolar outflows. The model is axisymmetric and stationary, and now includes Poynting flux. Compared to an earlier version of the model, this addition produces faster and more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Lery , Richard N. Henriksen , Jason D. Fiege

Recent numerical simulations and analytical models of magnetically collimated plasma outflows from a uniformly rotating central gravitating object and/or a Keplerian accretion disk have shown that relatively low mass and magnetic fluxes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Bogovalov , K. Tsinganos

The evolution of an initially stellar dipole type magnetosphere interacting with an accretion disk is investigated numerically using the ideal MHD ZEUS-3D code in the 2D-axisymmetry option. The simulations last several thousands of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Fendt , Detlef Elstner