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  • Open Access
5 Citations
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Bulge-Free and Homogeneous Metal Line Jet Printing with StarJet Technology

  • Dániel Straubinger,
  • Peter Koltay,
  • Roland Zengerle,
  • Sabrina Kartmann and
  • Zhe Shu

The technology to jet print metal lines with precise shape fidelity on diverse substrates is gaining higher interest across multiple research fields. It finds applications in additively manufactured flexible electronics, environmentally friendly and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
12,709 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2013

We present a novel pneumatic actuation system for generation of liquid metal droplets according to the so-called StarJet method. In contrast to our previous work, the performance of the device has been significantly improved: the maximum droplet gene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Microfluidic Handling Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,973 Views
18 Pages

Inhomogeneous Jets from Neutron Star Mergers: One Jet to Rule Them All

  • Gavin P. Lamb,
  • Lorenzo Nativi,
  • Stephan Rosswog,
  • D. Alexander Kann and ,
  • Andrew Levan,
  • Christoffer Lundman and
  • Nial Tanvir
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 November 2022

Using the resultant profiles from 3D hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic jets interacting with neutron star merger wind ejecta, we show how the inhomogeneity of energy and velocity across the jet surface profile can alter the observed afterglow...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,819 Views
5 Pages

The phenomenon of jet quenching indicates that partons lose energy as they traverse the hot dense medium. By restricting a trigger jet in azimuth relative to the event plane, we are given another tool, which allows us to study the path length depende...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2018—Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,703 Views
11 Pages

I argue that the high percentage of planetary nebulae (PNe) that are shaped by jets show that main sequence stars in binary systems can accrete mass at a high rate from an accretion disk and launch jets. Not only does this allow jets to shape PNe, bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Workplans II: Workshop for Planetary Nebula Observations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,458 Views
8 Pages

6 September 2018

We study the grazing envelope evolution (GEE), where a secondary star, which orbits the surface of a giant star, accretes mass from the giant envelope and launches jets. We conduct simulations of the GEE with different half-opening angles and velocit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae VII)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,431 Views
10 Pages

25 September 2018

It is widely believed that the dramatic transformation of the spherical outflows of AGB stars into the extreme aspherical geometries seen during the planetary nebula (PN) phase is linked to binarity and driven by the associated production of fast jet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae VII)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,460 Views
14 Pages

Large-Scale Ejecta of Z CMa—Proper Motion Study and New Features Discovered

  • Tiina Liimets,
  • Michaela Kraus,
  • Lydia Cidale,
  • Sergey Karpov and
  • Anthony Marston

Z Canis Majoris is a fascinating early-type binary with a Herbig Be primary and a FU Orionis-type secondary. Both of the stars exhibit sub-arcsecond jet-like ejecta. In addition, the primary is associated with the extended jet as well as with the lar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Observation of Active B-type Stars)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,390 Views
15 Pages

12 February 2023

In this paper, I review our understanding of how jet feedback works in star-forming galaxies. There are some interesting differences to radiative feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Jets act on galaxy haloes as well as on dense gas, for examp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Symbiosis between Radio Source and Galaxy Evolution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,126 Views
10 Pages

Jet luminosity from active galaxies and the rate of star formation have recently been found to be uncorrelated observationally. We show how to understand this in the context of a model in which powerful AGN jets enhance star formation for up to hundr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,582 Views
5 Pages

These proceedings report preliminary measurements of correlations between mid-rapidity charged tracks and high-rapidity event activity (EA) at STAR for s NN = 200 G e V p+Au collisions taken in 2015. These correlations are intriguing be...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2018—Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,685 Views
18 Pages

9 October 2025

Jets and outflows are key components of low-mass star formation, regulating accretion and shaping the surrounding molecular clouds. These flows, traced by molecular species at (sub)millimeter wavelengths (e.g., CO, SiO, SO, H2CO, and CH3OH) and by at...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,200 Views
19 Pages

Project MOMO: Multiwavelength Observations and Modeling of OJ 287

  • S. Komossa,
  • D. Grupe,
  • A. Kraus,
  • L. C. Gallo and ,
  • A. G. Gonzalez,
  • M. L. Parker,
  • M. J. Valtonen,
  • A. R. Hollett,
  • U. Bach and
  • S. Ciprini
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Our project MOMO (Multiwavelength observations and modeling of OJ 287) consists of dedicated, dense, long-term flux and spectroscopic monitoring, and deep follow-up observations of the blazar OJ 287 at >13 frequencies from the radio to the X-ray b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Panchromatic View of the Life-Cycle of AGN)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
2,652 Views
14 Pages

20 December 2022

A neutrino outburst between September 2014 and March 2015 was discovered from the blazar TXS 0506+056 by an investigation of 9.5 years of IceCube data, while the blazar was in a quiescent state during the outburst with a gamma-ray flux of only about...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology – in Memory of Prof. Tan Lu)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,220 Views
11 Pages

Exploring the Ionized Core of the Proto-Planetary Nebula CRL 618 and Its Vicinity with ALMA

  • José Pablo Fonfría,
  • Carmen Sánchez Contreras,
  • Daniel Tafoya,
  • Patricia Fernández-Ruiz and ,
  • Arancha Castro-Carrizo,
  • Javier Alcolea and
  • Valentín Bujarrabal
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 October 2024

Proto- and young planetary nebulae comprise dense circumstellar envelopes made of molecular gas and dust, some of which hide compact ionized cores that host stellar systems with hot objects, and show high-velocity bipolar outflows launched from insid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nucleosynthesis and Dust Production in AGB Stars: Open Issues and Future Perspectives)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,230 Views
9 Pages

It is now clear that a vast majority of intermediate-mass stars have stellar and/or sub-stellar companions, therefore it is no longer appropriate to consider planetary nebulae as a single-star phenomenon, although some single, isolated stars may well...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Workplans II: Workshop for Planetary Nebula Observations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
382 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2026

Microquasars are candidate sites for high-energy particle production within our galaxy. Because their distances and compact emission regions limit direct observational constraints, numerical simulations are useful for connecting jet dynamics with pos...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,532 Views
10 Pages

26 December 2024

I identify a point-symmetrical morphology in the core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) W44 compatible with shaping by three or more pairs of jets in the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM). Motivated by recent identifications of point-symmetr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,323 Views
13 Pages

16 December 2024

In comparing the two alternative explosion mechanisms of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), I examine recent three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations of CCSNe in the frame of the delayed neutrino explosion mechanism (neutrino mechanism) and a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Multiwavelength View of Supernovae)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,397 Views
43 Pages

9 November 2023

Microquasar stellar systems emit electromagnetic radiation and high-energy particles. Thanks to their location within our own galaxy, they can be observed in high detail. Still, many of their inner workings remain elusive; hence, simulations, as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,339 Views
31 Pages

A CFD-Based Surrogate for Pump–Jet AUV Maneuvering

  • Younhee Kwon,
  • Dong-Hwan Kim,
  • Jeonghwa Seo and
  • Hyun Chung

21 October 2025

Prediction of the maneuvering performance of autonomous underwater vehicles equipped with pump–jet propulsion remains computationally intensive when relying solely on high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics. To overcome this limitation, a su...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,497 Views
10 Pages

This is a non-comprehensive review of observations of pre-Planetary Nebulae (pPNe) and young Planetary Nebulae (yPNe) at (sub)mm-wavelengths, a valuable window for probing multi-phased gas and dust in these objects. This contribution focuses on obser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Workplans II: Workshop for Planetary Nebula Observations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,738 Views
31 Pages

Assessing the Mass Transfer Coefficient in Jet Bioreactors with Classical Computer Vision Methods and Neural Networks Algorithms

  • Irina Nizovtseva,
  • Vladimir Palmin,
  • Ivan Simkin,
  • Ilya Starodumov and ,
  • Pavel Mikushin,
  • Alexander Nozik,
  • Timur Hamitov,
  • Sergey Ivanov,
  • Sergey Vikharev and
  • Felix Blyakhman
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

21 February 2023

Development of energy-efficient and high-performance bioreactors requires progress in methods for assessing the key parameters of the biosynthesis process. With a wide variety of approaches and methods for determining the phase contact area in gas–li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Algorithms for Computer Vision Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,782 Views
6 Pages

The Jets of Microquasars during Giant Flares and Quiet State

  • Sergei Trushkin,
  • Nikolaj Nizhelskij,
  • Peter Tsybulev and
  • Gennadij Zhekanis

21 November 2017

We report on the radio properties of jets of the following microquasars, as determined from daily multi-frequency monitoring observations with the RATAN-600 radio telescope during 2010–2017: V404 Cyg, SS433, Cyg X-1, GRS1915+105 and LSI+61 ∘ 3...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polarised Emission from Astrophysical Jets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,362 Views
9 Pages

ALMA’s Acute View of pPNe: Through the Magnifying Glass... and What We Found There

  • Carmen Sánchez Contreras,
  • Javier Alcolea,
  • Valentín Bujarrabal and
  • Arancha Castro-Carrizo

4 September 2018

We present recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)-based studies of circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) around Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and pre-Planetary Nebulae (pPNe). In only a few years of operation, ALMA is revolutionisi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae VII)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
3,249 Views
10 Pages

A Global Inventory of Feedback

  • Timothy M. Heckman and
  • Philip N. Best

24 January 2023

Feedback from both supermassive black holes and massive stars plays a fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the inter-galactic medium. In this paper, we use available data to estimate the total amount of kinetic energy and momentum create...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Symbiosis between Radio Source and Galaxy Evolution)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,084 Views
28 Pages

The UV Perspective of Low-Mass Star Formation

  • P. Christian Schneider,
  • H. Moritz Günther and
  • Kevin France

The formation of low-mass ( M ★ ≲ 2 M ⊙ ) stars in molecular clouds involves accretion disks and jets, which are of broad astrophysical interest. Accreting stars represent the closest examples of these phenomena. Star and planet formation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Star Formation in the Ultraviolet)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,826 Views
16 Pages

Studying the Spectral Energy Distributions Emanating from Regular Galactic XRBs

  • Theodora Papavasileiou,
  • Odysseas Kosmas and
  • Ioannis Sinatkas

X-ray binary systems (XRBs) exhibit similar dynamics and multimessenger emission mechanisms to active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with the benefit of shorter time scaling. Those systems produce rich spectral energy distributions (SEDs) ranging from the ra...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,430 Views
35 Pages

17 July 2019

Gravitational Waves (GW) from coalescence of a Binary Neutron Star (BNS) and its accompanying short Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) GW/GRB 170817A confirmed the presumed origin of these puzzling transients and opened up the way for relating properties of short...

(This article belongs to the Section Astrophysics and Astronomy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,439 Views
15 Pages

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are believed to influence galaxy evolution through AGN (active galactic nuclei) feedback. Galaxy mergers are key processes of galaxy formation that lead to AGN activity and star formation. The relative contribution of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Phase Fueling and Feedback Processes in Jetted AGN)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,560 Views
21 Pages

The Interplay between Radio AGN Activity and Their Host Galaxies

  • Guilherme S. Couto and
  • Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

21 March 2023

Radio activity in AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) produce feedback on the host galaxy via the impact of the relativistic jets on the circumnuclear gas. Although radio jets can reach up to several times the optical radius of the host galaxy, in this revi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Symbiosis between Radio Source and Galaxy Evolution)
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
10,142 Views
38 Pages

The Structure of Gamma Ray Burst Jets

  • Om Sharan Salafia and
  • Giancarlo Ghirlanda

30 August 2022

Due to relativistic bulk motion, the structure and orientation of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets have a fundamental role in determining how they appear. The recent discovery of the GW170817 binary neutron star merger and the associated GRB boosted the in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gamma-Ray Burst Science in 2030)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,709 Views
15 Pages

Integral Fluxes of Neutrinos and Gamma-Rays Emitted from Neighboring X-ray Binaries

  • Odysseas Kosmas,
  • Theodora Papavasileiou and
  • Theocharis Kosmas

15 December 2023

Astrophysical plasma ejections (jets) are formed and powered by black holes that accrete material from their companion star in binary systems. Black hole X-ray binary systems constitute potential powerful galactic and extragalactic neutrino and gamma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Double Beta Decay Investigations: In Honor of Prof. Sabin Stoica at His 70th Anniversary)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,195 Views
32 Pages

19 November 2018

In the dawn of the multi-messenger era of gravitational wave astronomy, which was marked by the first ever coincident detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, it is important to take a step back and consider our current establi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,695 Views
6 Pages

Studying Microquasars with X-Ray Polarimetry

  • Giorgio Matt and
  • Francesco Tamborra

Microquasars are Galactic black hole systems in which matter is transferred from a donor star and accretes onto a black hole of, typically, 10–20 solar masses. The presence of an accretion disk and a relativistic jet made them a scaled down analogue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Bright Future of Astronomical X-ray Polarimetry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,206 Views
24 Pages

12 October 2022

The collapsar model is widely accepted as one of the standard scenarios for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In the massive collapsar scenario, the core will collapse to a black hole (BH) surrounded by a temporary hyperaccretion disk with a very high accreti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology – in Memory of Prof. Tan Lu)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,409 Views
8 Pages

17 September 2018

During the last decades, observations, mostly with the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that round Planetary Nebulae were the exception rather than rule. A huge variety of features are observed, such as jets, discs, tori, showing that the ejecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae VII)
  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,439 Views
35 Pages

Particle acceleration in relativistic jets, to very high levels of energy, occurs at the expense of the dissipation of magnetic or kinetic energy. Therefore, understanding the processes that can trigger this dissipation is key to the characterization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radio Galaxies at TeV Energies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,921 Views
6 Pages

Recently, evidence for synchrotron emission in both black-hole (BH) and neutron star X-ray binaries has been mounting, from optical/infrared spectral, polarimetric, and fast timing signatures. The synchrotron emission of jets can be highly linearly p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polarised Emission from Astrophysical Jets)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,029 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2021

Precursor emissions are found in some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). In this paper, we review the theories and observations of the SGRB precursor and discuss its prospect as an electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave event produced by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gamma-Ray Burst Science in 2030)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,861 Views
17 Pages

13 September 2021

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle emissions fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,130 Views
11 Pages

24 March 2022

Many bipolar nebulae with a pronounced cylindrical shape, such as Henize 3-401, show no indication whatsoever of interaction between a disk and a stellar wind, or a jet on the nebular axis. I propose that the disk that is observed at the base of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae 8e)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,050 Views
11 Pages

Inclination Estimates from Off-Axis GRB Afterglow Modelling

  • Gavin P. Lamb,
  • Joseph J. Fernández,
  • Fergus Hayes,
  • Albert K. H. Kong and ,
  • En-Tzu Lin,
  • Nial R. Tanvir,
  • Martin Hendry,
  • Ik Siong Heng,
  • Surojit Saha and
  • John Veitch
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

5 September 2021

For gravitational wave (GW) detected neutron star mergers, one of the leading candidates for electromagnetic (EM) counterparts is the afterglow from an ultra-relativistic jet. Where this afterglow is observed, it will likely be viewed off-axis, such...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Waiting for GODOT—Present and Future of Multi-Messenger Astronomy)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,763 Views
6 Pages

A New Chapter in Hard X-rays of the M87 AGN

  • Ka-Wah Wong,
  • Rodrigo S. Nemmen,
  • Jimmy A. Irwin and
  • Dacheng Lin

The nearby M87 hosts an exceptional relativistic jet. It has been regularly monitored in radio to TeV bands, but little has been done in hard X-rays ≳10 keV. For the first time, we have successfully detected hard X-rays up to 40 keV from its X-ray co...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Recent Progress in Relativistic Astrophysics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,446 Views
8 Pages

Searching for Jet Emission in LMXBs: A Polarimetric View

  • Maria Cristina Baglio,
  • Paolo D’Avanzo,
  • Sergio Campana and
  • Dave M. Russell

7 October 2017

We present results taken from a study aiming at detecting the emission from relativistic particles jets in neutron star-low mass X-ray binaries using optical polarimetric observations. First, we focus on a polarimetric study performed on the persiste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polarised Emission from Astrophysical Jets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,330 Views
17 Pages

22 December 2024

The offshore jacket structure has the advantages of suitable stiffness, convenient construction, anti-collision, and strong fatigue resistance, and it is the main structural form of offshore converter station. By constructing a numerical wave tank fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,426 Views
16 Pages

Black Hole’s Spin-Dependence of γ-Ray and Neutrino Emissions from MAXI J1820+070, XTE J1550-564, and XTE J1859+226

  • Dimitrios Rarras,
  • Odysseas Kosmas,
  • Theodora Papavasileiou and
  • Theocharis Kosmas

12 September 2024

A black hole’s spin effects on the jet emissions of high-energy neutrinos and γ-rays from black hole X-ray binary systems (BHXRBs) are investigated. The BHXRBs consist of a stellar black hole, a companion (donor) star, a BH accretion disk...

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