Numerical Simulation of Relativistic Jet Formation in Black Hole Magnetosphere

1998 ◽  
pp. 415-416
Author(s):  
Shinji Koide ◽  
Kazunari Shibata ◽  
Takahiro Kudoh
1997 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 667-671
Author(s):  
Shinji Koide ◽  
Kazunari Shibata ◽  
Takahiro Kudoh

AbstractRecently, superluminal motions are observed not only from active galactic nuclei but also in our Galaxy. These phenomena are explained as relativistic jets propagating almost toward us with Lorentz factor more than 2. For the formation of such a relativistic jet, magnetically driven mechanism around a black hole is most promising. We have extended the 2.5D Newtonian MHD jet model (Shibata & Uchida 1986) to general relativistic regime. For this purpose, we have developed a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical code and applied it to the simulation of the magnetized accretion disk around a black hole. We have found the formation of magnetically driven jets with 86 percent of light velocity (i.e. Lorentz factor ~ 2.0).


1998 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 415-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinji Koide ◽  
Kazunari Shibata ◽  
Takahiro Kudoh

The radio jets ejected from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) sometimes show proper motions with apparent velocity exceeding the speed of light. This phenomenon, called superluminal motion, is explained as relativistic jets propagating in a direction almost toward us, and has been thought to be ejected from the close vicinity of hypothetical supermassive black holes powering AGNs (Rees 1996). The magnetic mechanism has been proposed not only for AGN jets (Lovelace 1976; Blandford & Payne 1983) but also for protostellar jets (Pudritz & Norman 1986; Uchida & Shibata 1985; Shibata & Uchida 1986), although no one has yet performed nonsteady general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations on the formation of jets from the accretion disk around a black hole.


2012 ◽  
Vol 08 ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
DIMITRIOS GIANNIOS ◽  
BRIAN D. METZGER

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole provides us with unique information for otherwise dormant galactic nuclei. It has long been predicted that the disruption will be accompanied by a thermal 'flare', powered by the accretion of stellar debris. Recently, we proposed that a modest fraction of the accretion power can be channeled into a relativistic jet. We showed that, even if the jet is not pointing at our direction, the interactions of the jet with the interstellar medium can power a bright radio-IR transient. Recent transients discovered by Swift have all the expected characteristics of a new-born jet powered by the tidal disruption of a star. The evidence is strong that we are witnessing a most direct verification of the our proposal with the transient jet pointing directly at us. Upcoming radio transient surveys can independently discover numerous disruptions, complimenting searches at other wavelengths. Tidal disruptions can probe the physics of jet formation under relatively clean conditions, in which the flow parameters are independently constrained.


2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 309-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAXIM DVORNIKOV ◽  
ALEXANDER GRIGORIEV ◽  
ALEXANDER STUDENIKIN

We develop the quasiclassical theory of a massive neutrino spin evolution in the presence of gravitational fields, and the corresponding probability of the neutrino spin oscillations in gravitational fields is derived for the first time. On this basis we also predict a new mechanism for electromagnetic radiation by a neutrino moving in the vicinity of gravitating objects (the "spin light of neutrino," SLν, in gravitational fields). It is shown that the total power of this radiation is proportional to the neutrino gamma factor to the fourth power, and the emitted photon energy, for the case of an ultra relativistic neutrino, spans up to gamma-rays. We investigate the SLν caused by both gravitational and electromagnetic fields, also accounting for effects of arbitrary moving and polarized matter, in various astrophysical environments. In particular, we discuss the SLν emitted by a neutrino moving in the vicinity of a rotating neutron star, black hole surrounded by dense matter, as well as by a neutrino propagating in the relativistic jet from a quasar.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (S313) ◽  
pp. 329-330
Author(s):  
A. Olguín-Iglesias ◽  
J. León-Tavares ◽  
V. Chavushyan ◽  
E. Valtaoja ◽  
C. Añorve ◽  
...  

AbstractWe explore the connection between the black hole mass and its relativistic jet for a sample of radio-loud AGN (z < 1), in which the relativistic jet parameters are well estimated by means of long term monitoring with the 14m Metsähovi millimeter wave telescope and the Very Long Base-line Array (VLBA). NIR host galaxy images taken with the NOTCam on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) and retrieved from the 2MASS all-sky survey allowed us to perform a detailed surface brightness decomposition of the host galaxies in our sample and to estimate reliable black hole masses via their bulge luminosities. We present early results on the correlations between black hole mass and the relativistic jet parameters. Our preliminary results suggest that the more massive the black hole is, the faster and the more luminous jet it produces.


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