Particle acceleration in astrophysical jets

JH Matthews, AR Bell, KM Blundell - New Astronomy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we review some features of particle acceleration in astrophysical jets. We
begin by describing four observational results relating to the topic, with particular emphasis …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulations of jets

S Komissarov, O Porth - New Astronomy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
When astrophysical jets were discovered one hundred years ago, the field of numerical
simulations did not yet exit. Since the arrival of programmable computers though, numerical …

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

MM Kasliwal, E Nakar, LP Singer, DL Kaplan, DO Cook… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field
gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an …

Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron-star merger GW170817

KP Mooley, AT Deller, O Gottlieb, E Nakar, G Hallinan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The binary neutron-star merger GW170817 was accompanied by radiation across the
electromagnetic spectrum and localized to the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance of about 41 …

A new class of accurate, mesh-free hydrodynamic simulation methods

PF Hopkins - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison
with moving-mesh, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and stationary (non-moving) …

The Athena++ adaptive mesh refinement framework: design and magnetohydrodynamic solvers

JM Stone, K Tomida, CJ White… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The design and implementation of a new framework for adaptive mesh refinement
calculations are described. It is intended primarily for applications in astrophysical fluid …

yt: A multi-code analysis toolkit for astrophysical simulation data

MJ Turk, BD Smith, JS Oishi, S Skory… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The analysis of complex multiphysics astrophysical simulations presents a unique and
rapidly growing set of challenges: reproducibility, parallelization, and vast increases in data …

Gaps, rings, and non-axisymmetric structures in protoplanetary disks-from simulations to alma observations

M Flock, JP Ruge, N Dzyurkevich, T Henning… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Aims. Recent observations by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of
disks around young stars revealed distinct asymmetries in the dust continuum emission. In …

E pur si muove: Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh

V Springel - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations at present usually employ either the Lagrangian
smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique or Eulerian hydrodynamics on a …

The PLUTO code for adaptive mesh computations in astrophysical fluid dynamics

A Mignone, C Zanni, P Tzeferacos… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the
PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic …