High-energy electromagnetic, neutrino, and cosmic-ray emission by stellar-mass black holes in disks of active galactic nuclei

H Tagawa, SS Kimura, Z Haiman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Some Seyfert galaxies are detected in high-energy gamma rays, but the mechanism and site
of gamma-ray emission are unknown. Also, the origins of the cosmic high-energy neutrino …

M 87: a cosmic laboratory for deciphering black hole accretion and jet formation

K Hada, K Asada, M Nakamura, M Kino - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2024 - Springer
Over the past decades, there has been significant progress in our understanding of
accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that drive active galactic nuclei (AGNs), both …

Radio Images inside Highly Magnetized Jet Funnels Based on Semianalytic GRMHD Models

T Ogihara, T Kawashima, K Ohsuga - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
By performing general-relativistic radiative transfer calculations, we show the radio images
of relativistic jets including highly magnetized regions inside jet funnels, based on steady …

PATOKA: Simulating electromagnetic observables of black hole accretion

GN Wong, BS Prather, V Dhruv, BR Ryan… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has released analyses of reconstructed
images of horizon-scale millimeter emission near the supermassive black hole at the center …

Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode

JC Algaba, M Baloković, S Chandra… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of only two supermassive black
holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the Event …

Magnetic Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres: Lepton Loading into Jets, Superluminal Radio Blobs, and Multiwavelength Flares

SS Kimura, K Toma, H Noda… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei launch relativistic jets, as indicated by
observed superluminal radio blobs. The energy source of these jets is widely discussed in …

Mapping the distribution of the magnetic field strength along the NGC 315 jet

M Kino, H Ro, M Takahashi, T Kawashima… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We study magnetic field strengths along the jet in NGC 315. First, we estimated the angular
velocity of rotation in the jet magnetosphere by comparing the measured velocity profile of …

High-energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei

K Murase, FW Stecker - The Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Set 2 …, 2024 - World Scientific
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy γ-rays and are considered to be
promising candidates to be sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos as well. We …

Soft gamma rays from low accreting supermassive black holes and connection to energetic neutrinos

SS Kimura, K Murase, P Mészáros - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The Universe is filled with a diffuse background of MeV gamma-rays and PeV neutrinos,
whose origins are unknown. Here, we propose a scenario that can account for both …

One-dimensional General Relativistic Particle-in-cell Simulations of Stellar-mass Black Hole Magnetospheres: A Semianalytic Model of Gamma-Rays from Gaps

K Kin, S Kisaka, K Toma, SS Kimura… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the absence of a sufficient amount of plasma injection into the black hole (BH)
magnetosphere, the force-free state of the magnetosphere cannot be maintained, leading to …