As the accreting matter comes close to a black hole, it may form a shock due to centrifugal barrier and may eject the rotating matter along the axis in the form of jets. And the post-shock region puffs up due to shock heating and forms a torus like structure. These post-shock hot electrons emit hard X-ray photons by inverse Comptonization of pre and post-shock soft photons. Radiations from accretion disc can accelerate the outflowing matter.
We self consistently compute shock driven bipolar outflows, which are accelerated by accretion disc photons. Although we have earlier studied the issue of radiative acceleration of jets, and formation of jets from shocked accretion disc, but the two have never been connected. We vary all possible disc parameters to see how they affect the jet formation and acceleration. For some extreme parameters the jet terminal speed is found to be as high as 50% the speed of light, although, in most cases the terminal speed for such jets are
around 10 to 30 % of the speed of light.
Rajiv is a 4th year student in ARIES. He works in theoretical astrophysics, especially on generation of bipolar jets from accretion discs.