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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 the first direct measurements of the magnetic field strength and direction in a collimated jet from an evolved star on its way to become a planetary nebula. Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the linear and circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. H. T. Vlemmings , P. J. Diamond , H. Imai

We provide estimates for the flux and maximum frequency of radiation produced when the magnetic field in a relativistic, highly magnetized, jet is dissipated and particles are accelerated using general considerations. We also provide limits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 Pawan Kumar , Patrick Crumley

Jets (transient/collimated plasma ejections) occur frequently throughout the solar corona and contribute mass/energy to the corona and solar wind. By combining numerical simulations and high-resolution observations, we have made substantial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , C. Richard DeVore , Craig E. DeForest

The origin of the large-scale poloidal magnetic field required to power relativistic jets in collapsars remains uncertain. While such a field may be inherited during PNS collapse, the efficiency of this process is unclear, motivating an in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Ho-Sang Chan , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matteo Cantiello , Mathieu Renzo

Two three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of strongly magnetized conical jets, one with a poloidal and one with a helical magnetic field, have been performed. In the poloidal simulation a significant sheath (wind) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip Hardee , Alexander Rosen

Solar jets are ubiquitous transient collimated mass outflows in the solar atmosphere over a wide range of sizes from small scale nanojets to a few solar radii, embedded in the solar chromosphere to solar corona. Jets are frequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Reetika Joshi

Coronal jets are transient, collimated eruptions that occur in regions of predominantly open magnetic field in the solar corona. Our understanding of these events has greatly evolved in recent years but several open questions, such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 T. Torok , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikic , J. A. Linker , M. G. Linton

Relativistic outflows carrying large scale magnetic fields have large inductive potential and may accelerate protons to ultra high energies. We discuss a novel scheme of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) acceleration due to drifts in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 Maxim Lyutikov , Rachid Ouyed

We perform two-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coronal jets driven by flux emergence along the lower boundary. The reconnection layers are susceptible the formation of blobs that are ejected in the jet. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Lei Ni , Qing-Min Zhang , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

Using high resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations in 3D, we investigate the formation of relativistic jets from rotating magnetospheres. Here, we focus on the development of non-axisymmetric modes due to internal and external…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oliver Porth

Formation of relativistic jets in the magnetosphere of collapsing stars is considered. These jets will be formed in the polar caps of magnetosphere of collapsing star, where the stellar magnetic field increases during the collapse and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Kryvdyk

High velocity highly collimated beams of plasma -- the jets -- are known as a general phenomenon among astrophysical sources of different energy and spatial scale. The common MHD scenario of astrophysical jet formation allows to describe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Fendt

We propose a gamma-ray burst scenario involving relativistic jets dominated by Poynting flux with alternating toroidal magnetic fields. Such a structure may arise naturally if the jet is formed and powered by the accretion flow in the core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sikora , M. C. Begelman , P. Coppi , D. Proga

Relativistic jets carry a significant fraction of the total energy budget of a radio source, rivaling the power that is extracted through accretion. A minor part of this bulk kinetic power is transformed to radiation, possibly through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti

We have investigated the influence of jet rotation and differential motion on the linear and nonlinear development of the current-driven (CD) kink instability of force-free helical magnetic equilibria via three-dimensional relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yosuke Mizuno , Yuri Lyubarsky , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

Coronal jets are the captivating eruptions which are often found in the solar atmosphere, and primarily formed due to magnetic reconnection. Despite their short-lived nature and lower energy compared to many other eruptive events, e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sushree S Nayak , Samrat Sen , Arpit Kumar Shrivastav , R. Bhattacharyya , P. S. Athiray

We show how an appropriate stationary crystalline structure of the magnetic field can induce a partial fragmentation of the accretion disk, generating an axial jet seed composed of hot plasma twisted in a funnel-like structure due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Giulio Tirabassi , Giovanni Montani , Nakia Carlevaro

Relativistic jets in Galactic superluminals and extragalactic AGN may be surrounded by a wind near to the central engine. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation reveal considerable stabilization of relativistic jet flow by a wind to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip E. Hardee , Philip A. Hughes

We present observational analysis of two successive two-sided loop jets observed by the ground-based New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) and the space-borne Solar Dynamics Observatory ( SDO). The two successive two-sided loop jets manifested…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Zhanjun Tian , Yu Liu , Yuandeng Shen , Abouazza Elmhamdi , Jiangtao Su , Ying D. Liu , Ayman. S. Kordi