Publications (116)
Instability of toroidal magnetic field in jets and plerions
Mitchell C. Begelman
Reconnection-Powered Linear Accelerator and Gamma-Ray Flares in the Crab Nebula
Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoit Cerutti, Mitchell C. Begelman
X-ray flares and their relation to the inner engine activity of GRBs
Davide Lazzati, Brian J. Morsony, Rosalba Perna +1
The origin and propagation of variability in the outflows of long duration gamma-ray bursts
Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati, Mitchell C. Begelman
Hyperaccretion during tidal disruption events: weakly bound debris envelopes and jets
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
Heating, conduction and minimum temperatures in cooling flows
Mateusz Ruszkowski, Mitchell C. Begelman
Accretion disk dynamo as the trigger for X-ray binary state transitions
Mitchell C. Begelman, Philip J. Armitage, Christopher S. Reynolds
High-efficiency photospheric emission of long-duration gamma-ray burst jets: the effect of the viewing angle
Davide Lazzati, Brian J. Morsony, Mitchell C. Begelman
Hyperaccreting black holes in galactic nuclei
Mitchell C. Begelman, Marta Volonteri
The Evolutionary Status of SS433
Andrew R. King, Ronald E. Taam, Mitchell C. Begelman
Numerical investigation of kinetic turbulence in relativistic pair plasmas I: Turbulence statistics
Vladimir Zhdankin, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Gregory R. Werner +1
Recollimation Boundary Layers in Relativistic Jets
Susanna Kohler, Mitchell C. Begelman, Kris Beckwith
Cyclotron Maser Emission from Blazar Jets?
Mitchell C. Begelman, Robert E. Ergun, Martin J. Rees
Proceedings of IAU 163: Radiation-Driven Warping: The Origin of Warps and Precession in Accretion Disks
Philip R. Maloney, Mitchell C. Begelman
Accretion disc dynamo activity in local simulations spanning weak-to-strong net vertical magnetic flux regimes
Greg Salvesen, Jacob B. Simon, Philip J. Armitage +1
Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation
Mitchell C. Begelman
Circular polarization from stochastic synchrotron sources
Mateusz Ruszkowski, Mitchell C. Begelman
Trapping of magnetic flux by the plunge region of a black hole accretion disk
Christopher S. Reynolds, David Garofalo, Mitchell C. Begelman
Beaming and rapid variability of high-energy radiation from relativistic pair plasma reconnection
Benoit Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky +1
Are Quasar Jets Matter or Poynting Flux Dominated?
Marek Sikora, Greg M. Madejski, Jean-Pierre Lasota +1
Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts via Direct Collapse in a Cosmological Context
Jun-Hwan Choi, Isaac Shlosman, Mitchell C. Begelman
Self-Consistent Thermal Accretion Disk Corona Models for Compact Objects: II. Application to Cygnus X-1
James B. Dove, Jorn Wilms, Michael Maisack +1
Viscous boundary layers of radiation-dominated, relativistic jets. I. The two-stream model
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet
Dimitrios Giannios, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Mitchell C. Begelman
Magnetic flux paradigm for radio-loudness of AGN
Marek Sikora, Mitchell C. Begelman
Electron and ion energization in relativistic plasma turbulence
Vladimir Zhdankin, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Gregory R. Werner +1
Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion
Mitchell C. Begelman
Radiatively-Driven Outflows and Avoidance of Common-Envelope Evolution in Close Binaries
Andrew R. King, Mitchell C. Begelman
Temporal and Angular Properties of GRB Jets Emerging from Massive Stars
Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati, Mitchell C. Begelman
Radiative Properties of Reconnection-Powered Minijets in Blazars
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Dimitrios Giannios, Mitchell C. Begelman +2
The Compton Mirror in NGC 4151
Juri Poutanen, Marek Sikora, Mitchell C. Begelman +1
Instability in strongly magnetized accretion discs: A global perspective
Upasana Das, Mitchell C. Begelman, Geoffroy Lesur
Radiation-Driven Warping: The Origin of Warps and Precession in Accretion Disks
Philip R. Maloney, Mitchell C. Begelman, J. E. Pringle
Delayed X-ray emission from fallback in compact-object mergers
Elena M. Rossi, Mitchell C. Begelman
AGN Feedback Mechanisms
Mitchell C. Begelman
Collimation and confinement of magnetic jets by external media
Amir Levinson, Mitchell C. Begelman
Eddington limit and radiative transfer in highly inhomogeneous atmospheres
Mateusz Ruszkowski, Mitchell C. Begelman
Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts via Direct Collapse: Physical Processes in the Early Stage
Jun-Hwan Choi, Isaac Shlosman, Mitchell C. Begelman
Energetic Constraints on a Rapid Gamma-Ray Flare in PKS 1222+216
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mitchell C. Begelman, Benoit Cerutti +2
Spectral hardening as a viable alternative to disc truncation in black hole state transitions
Greg Salvesen, Jon M. Miller, Rubens C. Reis +1
Gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula: A case of relativistic reconnection?
Benoit Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky +1
Kinetic turbulence in relativistic plasma: from thermal bath to non-thermal continuum
Vladimir Zhdankin, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky +1
On the Fate of Gas Accreting at a Low Rate onto a Black Hole
Roger D. Blandford, Mitchell C. Begelman
Impact of AGNs on the Surrounding Medium
Mitchell C. Begelman
Fast TeV variability from misaligned minijets in the jet of M87
Dimitrios Giannios, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Mitchell C. Begelman
Short-duration gamma-ray bursts from off-axis collapsars
Davide Lazzati, Brian J. Morsony, Mitchell C. Begelman
Constraining the Structure of GRB Jets Through the log(N)-log(S) Distribution
Dafne Guetta, Jonathan Granot, Mitchell C. Begelman
Did supermassive black holes form by direct collapse?
Mitchell C. Begelman
Cluster Heating by Viscous Dissipation of Sound Waves
Mateusz Ruszkowski, Marcus Bruggen, Mitchell C. Begelman
System-size convergence of nonthermal particle acceleration in relativistic plasma turbulence
Vladimir Zhdankin, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Gregory R. Werner +1
Reconciling models of luminous blazars with magnetic fluxes determined by radio core shift measurements
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Marek Sikora, Mitchell C. Begelman
Super-Eddington Fluxes from Thin Accretion Disks?
Mitchell C. Begelman
Implications of very rapid TeV variability in blazars
Mitchell C. Begelman, Andrew C. Fabian, Martin J. Rees
Formation of Supermassive Black Holes by Direct Collapse in Pregalactic Halos
Mitchell C. Begelman, Marta Volonteri, Martin J. Rees
The physics of GRB jets and their interaction with the progenitor star
Davide Lazzati, Brian J. Morsony, Mitchell C. Begelman
Self-Consistent Thermal Accretion Disk Corona Models for Compact Objects: I. Properties of the Corona and the Spectrum of Escaping Radiation
James B. Dove, Jorn Wilms, Mitchell C. Begelman
Magnetically elevated accretion disks in active galactic nuclei: broad emission line regions and associated star formation
Mitchell C. Begelman, Joseph Silk
HST Observations of the Broad Absorption Line Quasar PG 0946+301
Nahum Arav, Kirk T. Korista, Martijn de Kool +2
A spine-sheath model for strong-line blazars
Marek Sikora, Mieszko Rutkowski, Mitchell C. Begelman
X-ray flares, neutrino cooled disks, and the dynamics of late accretion in GRB engines
Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna, Mitchell C. Begelman
Chandra ACIS-S Observations of Abell 4059: Signs of Dramatic Interaction Between a Radio Galaxy and a Galaxy Cluster
Sebastian Heinz, Yun-Young Choi, Christopher S. Reynolds +1
The radiation hydrodynamics of relativistic shear flows
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
RXTE Observation of Cygnus X-1: Spectral Analysis
James B. Dove, Jorn Wilms, Michael A. Nowak +2
Quasistars: Accreting black holes inside massive envelopes
Mitchell C. Begelman, Elena M. Rossi, Philip J. Armitage
Entropy "floor" and effervescent heating of intracluster gas
S. Roychowdhury, M. Ruszkowski, B. B. Nath +1
Accreting Black Holes
Mitchell C. Begelman
The Origin of Warped, Precessing Disks in X-Ray Binaries
Philip R. Maloney, Mitchell C. Begelman
Polarimetry and the High-Energy Emission Mechanisms in Quasar Jets. The Case of PKS 1136-135
Mihai Cara, Eric S. Perlman, Yasunobu Uchiyama +11
Disk Outflows and the Accretion Rate Gap
Mitchell C. Begelman, Annalisa Celotti
Iron fluorescence from within the innermost stable orbit of black hole accretion disks
Christopher S. Reynolds, Mitchell C. Begelman
Extreme AGN variability: evidence of magnetically elevated accretion?
Jason Dexter, Mitchell C. Begelman
Self-regulated black hole accretion, the M-sigma relation, and the growth of bulges in galaxies
Mitchell C. Begelman, Biman B. Nath
3D simulations of viscous dissipation in the intracluster medium
Mateusz Ruszkowski, Marcus Bruggen, Mitchell C. Begelman
Magnetic Domination of Recollimation Boundary Layers in Relativistic Jets
Susanna Kohler, Mitchell C. Begelman
Photon Bubbles and the Vertical Structure of Accretion Disks
Mitchell C. Begelman
Constraining the Location of Gamma-Ray Flares in Luminous Blazars
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mitchell C. Begelman, Marek Sikora
Hot self-similar relativistic MHD flows
Nadia L. Zakamska, Mitchell C. Begelman, Roger D. Blandford
Quasistars and the cosmic evolution of massive black holes
Marta Volonteri, Mitchell C. Begelman
Entropy Production in Relativistic Jet Boundary Layers
Susanna Kohler, Mitchell C. Begelman
XMM-EPIC observation of MCG-6-30-15: Direct evidence for the extraction of energy from aspinning black hole?
Joern Wilms, Christopher S. Reynolds, Mitchell C. Begelman +4
Force-feeding Black Holes
Mitchell C. Begelman
Quantifying energetics and dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Greg Salvesen, Kris Beckwith, Jacob B. Simon +2
Radiation-Driven Warping. II. Non-Isothermal Disks
Philip R. Maloney, Mitchell C. Begelman, Michael A. Nowak
Gamma-Ray Burst jet dynamics and their interaction with the progenitor star
Davide Lazzati, Brian J. Morsony, Mitchell C. Begelman
Are quasar jets dominated by Poynting flux?
Marek Sikora, Mitchell C. Begelman, Greg M. Madejski +1
Super-Eddington Atmospheres that Don't Blow Away
Mitchell C. Begelman
Post-periapsis pancakes: sustenance for self-gravity in tidal disruption events
Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon, Mitchell C. Begelman +2
Internal instabilities in magnetized jets
Upasana Das, Mitchell C. Begelman
On the structure of tidally-disrupted stellar debris streams
Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon, Mitchell C. Begelman +1
Jet Emission in Young Radio Sources: a Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray View
Giulia Migliori, Aneta Siemiginowska, Brandon C. Kelly +3
X-ray Signatures of Evolving Radio Galaxies
Sebastian Heinz, Christopher S. Reynolds, Mitchell C. Begelman
Three-dimensional relativistic pair plasma reconnection with radiative feedback in the Crab Nebula
Benoit Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky +1
A mechanism for hysteresis in black hole binary state transitions
Mitchell C. Begelman, Philip J. Armitage
Viscous boundary layers of radiation-dominated, relativistic jets. II. The free-streaming jet model
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
Thermal stability of thin disk with magnetically driven winds
Shuang-Liang Li, Mitchell C. Begelman
Hydrodynamical Non-radiative Accretion Flows in Two-Dimensions
James M. Stone, James E. Pringle, Mitchell C. Begelman
The effect of poloidal velocity shear on the local development of current-driven instabilities
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mitchell C. Begelman
Mechanical heating by active galaxies
Mitchell C. Begelman, Mateusz Ruszkowski
On the distribution of particle acceleration sites in plasmoid-dominated relativistic magnetic reconnection
Krzysztof Nalewajko, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoît Cerutti +2
A Model for the Moving `Wisps' in the Crab Nebula
Mitchell C. Begelman