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Magnetic acceleration of ultra-relativistic jets in gamma-ray burst sources
Serguei Komissarov, Nektarios Vlahakis, Arieh Konigl +1
We present a relativistic-MHD numerical study of axisymmetric, magnetically driven jets with parameters applicable to gamma-ray burst (GRB) flows. We also present analytic expressi…
Magnetic acceleration of ultra-relativistic GRB and AGN jets
Maxim V. Barkov, Serguei S. Komissarov
We present numerical simulations of cold, axisymmetric, magnetically driven relativistic outflows. The outflows are initially sub-Alfvénic and Poynting flux-dominated, with total--…
Multi-dimensional Numerical Scheme for Resistive Relativistic MHD
S. S. Komissarov
The paper describes a new upwind conservative numerical scheme for special relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with scalar resistivity. The magnetic field is kept approxima…
Tearing instability in relativistic magnetically dominated plasmas
S. S. Komissarov, M. Barkov, M. Lyutikov
Many astrophysical sources of high energy emission, such as black hole magnetospheres, superstrongly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars), and probably relativistic jets in Active…
Magnetized Tori around Kerr Black Holes: Analytic Solutions with a Toroidal Magnetic Field
S. S. Komissarov
The dynamics of accretion discs around galactic and extragalactic black holes may be influenced by their magnetic field. In this paper we generalise the fully relativistic theory o…