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We present numerical simulation of bulk Lorentz factor of relativistic electron-positron jet driven by Compton rocket effect from accretion disc radiation. The plasma is assumed to have a power-law distribution $n_{e}(\gamma) \propto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 N. Renaud , G. Henri

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei are among the most powerful objects in the universe. In these objects, most of the emission comes from relativistic jets getting their power from the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Thomas Vuillaume , Gilles Henri , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci

Radiative deceleration of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei as the result of inverse Compton scattering of soft photons from accretion discs is discussed. The Klein-Nishina (KN) cross section is used in the calculation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Qinghuan Luo , R. J. Protheroe

AGNs jets are known to display relativistic motion on parsec scales but the accelerating mechanism as well as the exact bulk Lorentz factor of the flow are still a matter of discussion. Under certain assumptions, a plasma can be accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Vuillaume , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Gilles Henri

We consider the radiative acceleration to relativistic bulk velocities of a cold, optically thin plasma which is exposed to an external source of gamma-rays. The flow is driven by radiative momentum input to the gas, the accelerating force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piero Madau , Christopher Thompson

A model is developed for relativistic Poynting jets from the inner region of a disk around a rotating black hole. The disk is initially threaded by a dipole-like magnetic field. The model is derived from the special relativistic equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard V. E. Lovelace , Marina M. Romanova

We investigate the dissipation of the bulk kinetic energy of a relativistic jet at different distances from the central power--house and analyse in detail how the dissipated energy is radiated away. We assume that the location of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Katarzynski , G. Ghisellini

Two types of relativistic jets are suggested to form near accreting black holes: a potentially ultrarelativistic Poynting-dominated jet and a Poynting-baryon jet. One source of jet matter is electron-positron pair production, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan C. McKinney

We use a sample of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with measured black hole masses to explore the jet formation mechanisms in these sources. Based on the K\"{o}nigl's inhomogeneous jet model, the jet parameters, such as the bulk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Bo Chai , Xinwu Cao , Minfeng Gu

We study the effect of variable jet bulk Lorentz factors, i.e., either jet acceleration or deceleration, on partially synchrotron self-absorbed radio spectra from cores of radio-loud active galactic nuclei and black-hole binaries in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Andrzej A. Zdziarski

Based on the K\"onigl's inhomogeneous jet model, we estimate the jet parameters, such as bulk Lorentz factor $\Gamma$, viewing angle $\theta$ and electron number density $n_{\rm e}$ from radio VLBI and X-ray data for a sample of active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Xinwu Cao , D. R. Jiang

We investigate a relativistic fluid jet driven by radiation from a shocked accretion disc around a non-rotating black hole approximated by Paczy\'nski-Wiita potential. The sub-Keplerian and Keplerian accretion rates control the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 Mukesh K. Vyas , Rajiv Kumar , Samir Mandal , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Plasmas of geometrically thick, black hole (BH) accretion flows in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are generally collisionless for protons, and involve magnetic field turbulence. Under such conditions a fraction of protons can be accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara

Short gamma ray bursts are presumably results of binary neutron star mergers, which lead to the formation of a stellar mass black hole, surrounded by a remnant matter. The strong magnetic fields help collimate jets of plasma, launched along…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 K. Sapountzis , A. Janiuk

A general relativistic model for the formation and acceleration of low mass-loaded jets from systems containing accreting black holes is presented. The model is based on previous numerical results and theoretical studies in the Newtonian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-09 Felix Brezinski , Ahmad Hujeirat

We propose a novel mechanism for powering the central engines of Active Galactic Nuclei through super-critical (type II) black hole collapse. In this picture, ~$10^3 M_\odot$ of material collapsing at relativistic speeds can trigger a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-19 A. Avgoustidis , R. Jimenez , L. Alvarez-Gaume , M. A. Vazquez-Mozo

The recent discovery, by the Chandra satellite, that jets of blazars are strong X-ray emitters at large scales (0.1-1 Mpc) bears support to the hypothesis that (also) on these scales the emitting plasma is moving at highly relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gabriele Ghisellini , Annalisa Celotti

Knowledge about the Lorentz factor and its evolution of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to understand their physics. An exact value of bulk Lorentz factor can be estimated based on a high-energy spectral cutoff,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Jing Li , Da-Bin Lin , Rui-Jing Lu , Yun Wang , Lu-Yao Jiang , Shen-Shi Du , Wen-Qiang Liang , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

We study the jet in the hard state of the accreting black-hole binary MAXI J1820+070. From the available radio-to-optical spectral and variability data, we put strong constraints on the jet parameters. We find while it is not possible to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Alexandra J. Tetarenko , Marek Sikora

The dramatic relativistic jets pointing directly at us in BL Lac objects can be well modelled by bulk motion beaming of synchrotron self-Compton emission powered by a low Eddington fraction accretion flow. Nearly 500 of these AGN are seen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Emma Gardner , Chris Done
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