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Beyond the Impulsive Approximation: The Dynamics and Radio Emission of Tidal Disruption Jets

  • Authors: Fabio De Colle, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Fabio De Colle and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Density maps from a two-dimensional simulation of a relativistic jet propagating through the circumnuclear medium surrounding a 107 M black hole at t = 7, 47, and 380 days (left to right). The jet is injected at the inner boundary with Lorentz factor Γjet = 10, isotropic-equivalent energy Eiso = 4 × 1053 erg, and a luminosity history corresponding to the fallback-powered model shown in Figure 1. The interaction of the jet with the ambient medium produces the characteristic forward and reverse shock structure while inflating a hot cocoon that expands laterally and confines the relativistic jet. The physical scale shown in each panel increases with time: the horizontal bars correspond to 3 × 1015, 3 × 1016, and 3 × 1017 cm, respectively. The simulation is performed on a spherical polar grid extending from 3 × 1015 to 2 × 1018 cm with a jet half-opening angle θjet = 0.1 rad. The computational grid is resolved with 200 × 2 cells in the radial and polar directions and 14 levels of adaptive mesh refinement.

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