GRMHD Simulations and Modeling for Jet Formation and Acceleration Region in AGNs
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Jet Formation from Geometrically Thin Accretion Disk
2.1. Jet Formation from Tilted Thin Disks
2.2. Thin Disk Simulations in Non-Ideal GRMHD
3. Jet Formation from Geometrically Thick Magnetized Torii
3.1. GRMHD Simulations in the MAD Regime
3.2. Different Magnetic Field Configurations
3.3. Jet Formation from Tilted Thick Torii
3.4. Geometrically Thick Torus Simulations in Non-Ideal GRMHD
4. Jet Formation in Radiative GRMHD Simulations
5. Jet Formation without Disk
6. Jet Modeling from GRMHD Simulations
7. Discussion and Summary
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
ADAF | Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow |
AGN | Active Galactic Nuclei |
AMR | Adaptive Mesh Refinement |
BH | Black Hole |
EHTC | Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration |
GR | General Relativity |
GRMHD | General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics |
GRRT | General Relativistic Radiative Transfer |
MAD | Magnetically Arrested Disk |
MHD | Magnetohydrodynamics |
MRI | Magnetorotational Instability |
SANE | Standard Accretion and Normal Evolution |
PFD | Poynting Flux Dominated |
RIAF | Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow |
WR | Wolf–Rayet |
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