Work

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the jet in M 87

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Context. The connection between black hole, accretion disk, and radio jet can be constrained best by fitting models to observations of nearby low-luminosity galactic nuclei, in particular the well-studied sources Sgr A* and M 87. There has been considerable progress in modeling the central engine of active galactic nuclei by an accreting supermassive black hole coupled to a relativistic plasma jet. However, can a single model be applied to a range of black hole masses and accretion rates?

Source: Astronomy and Astrophysics

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526630

Authors: Monika Mościbrodzka, Heino Falcke, Hotaka Shiokawa

Institutions: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Language: English

Topic: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, FP7 Ideas: European Research Council

Awards: XSEDE: eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, Imaging the Event Horizon of Black Holes