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arxiv: 2601.15030 · v1 · submitted 2026-01-21 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

Three-dimensional GRMHD simulations of jet formation and propagation in self-gravitating collapsing stars

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Self-gravity in collapsing stars temporarily quenches relativistic jets and produces narrower opening angles.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Three-dimensional GRMHD simulations compare jet formation and propagation in collapsar models that are identical except for the presence or absence of self-gravity. Self-gravity is incorporated by adding perturbative corrections to the Kerr metric that reflect the growing mass and spin of the central black hole. The calculations show that self-gravity induces episodes of jet quenching while leaving the initial launch time essentially unchanged. Jets in the self-gravitating runs extract less rotational energy, develop smaller opening angles, and exhibit different variability and propagation behavior than jets in non-self-gravitating runs. Under some conditions the quenching becomes permanent and the jet fails to emerge.

Core claim

The first three-dimensional GRMHD simulations of jet formation in self-gravitating collapsars demonstrate that self-gravity produces temporary jet quenching, narrower opening angles, reduced energy extraction from the black hole, and altered timescales and variability compared with otherwise identical models that omit self-gravity; in some cases the quenching prevents the jet from forming altogether.

What carries the argument

Perturbative corrections to the Kerr metric that update its components for the increasing black-hole mass and angular momentum during collapse.

If this is right

  • Temporary jet quenching can produce the observed variability in gamma-ray burst prompt emission.
  • Self-gravity can interrupt jet formation and yield failed bursts under certain initial conditions.
  • Self-gravitating models produce narrower jet opening angles than non-self-gravitating models.
  • Jets extract less rotational energy from the black hole when self-gravity is included.
  • Jet timescales, power, terminal Lorentz factor, and variability all change when self-gravity is taken into account.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Standard models that omit self-gravity likely overestimate jet power and terminal Lorentz factor.
  • Light-curve searches for brief quenching episodes could test whether self-gravity operates in real collapsars.
  • The perturbative treatment should be compared against fully dynamical gravity simulations to confirm the quenching mechanism.
  • Varying the initial stellar rotation and mass could map the boundary between successful and failed jets.

Load-bearing premise

Perturbative updates to the Kerr metric capture the dynamical influence of self-gravity on the star and jet without requiring a fully consistent gravitational field.

What would settle it

Gamma-ray burst light curves that display quenching-induced variability on the exact timescales and with the exact amplitude ratios predicted by the self-gravitating runs but absent from the non-self-gravitating runs.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.15030 by Agnieszka Janiuk (CTP PAS), Piotr P{\l}onka.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Evolution of the terminal Lorentz factor ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Evolution of Blandford–Znajek luminosity for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Jet opening angle for Model-1 (top), and for Model-1-NSG and Model-2-NSG (bottom), obtained using two methods. to the declining spin (Hurtado et al. 2024), as discussed in below. To sum up, our results show that self-gravity contributes to jet collimation and keeps the opening angles between θjet = 4 ◦ − 10◦ , consistently with observations (Goldstein et al. 2016). 3.3. Black hole mass and spin evolution O… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Evolution of the black hole spin, mass and accretion rate for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Dimensionless magnetic flux (ϕMAD) and emission effi￾ciency (η) for Model-1 and Model-2. time: (i) when the jet ejection is stable (at t = 0.052 s, with a ≈ 0.79 and MBH ≈ 3.13 M⊙); (ii) when the ejection becomes unstable due to episodic mass accretion (at t = 0.111 s, with a ≈ 0.75 and MBH ≈ 3.5 M⊙); and (iii) just before the peak ac￾cretion rate, when the jet is completely quenched (at t = 0.140 s, with … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Two-dimensional maps of magnetization (σ) and terminal Lorentz factor (Γ∞), and equatorial-plane map of rest-mass density (ρ) with overlaid magnetic field lines for Model-1-SG. Columns show t = 0.074, 0.111, and 0.140 s. ing black holes were studied. Here we focus on magnetisations high enough to launch bi-polar jets at the cost of the rotation of a spinning black hole. We find the existence of powerful je… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Two-dimensional maps of temperature (T), magnetisation (σ) and plasma beta (β) of Model-1-SG (top row) and Model-1-NSG (bottom row). All snapshots correspond to t = 0.129 s. gradually decreases until the jet is completely quenched. In par￾ticular, the case simulated by Model-1-NSG more efficiently ex￾tracts rotational energy from the black hole, resulting in a smaller value of the final black hole spin. We… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We investigate collapsar models with and without self-gravity under identical initial conditions to directly compare the effects of self-gravity on jet properties, such as opening angle, jet power, terminal Lorentz factor, and its variability. We compute a suite of time-dependent, three-dimensional GRMHD simulations of collapsars in evolving spacetime. We update the Kerr metric components due to the growth of the black hole mass and changes its angular momentum. The self-gravity is considered via perturbative terms. We present for the first time the process of jet formation in self-gravitating collapsars. We find that self-gravity leads to temporary jet quenching, which can explain some features in the gamma-ray burst prompt emission. We find no substantial difference in jet launching times between models with and without self-gravity. We observe that in the absence of self-gravity, the jet can extract more rotational energy from the black hole, while self-gravitating models produce narrower jet opening angles. We show that under certain conditions, self-gravity can interrupt the jet formation process, resulting in a failed burst. Our computations show that self-gravity significantly modifies the process of jet propagation, resulting in notably different jet properties. We show that the timescales, variability, and opening angle of jet depend on whether self-gravity is included or not. We argue that self-gravity can potentially explain certain prompt emission properties due to the jet quenching.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents a suite of time-dependent three-dimensional GRMHD simulations of collapsar jet formation and propagation, directly comparing otherwise identical setups with and without self-gravity. The spacetime is evolved by updating the Kerr metric for black-hole mass and spin growth while adding perturbative self-gravity corrections; the central claims are that self-gravity produces temporary jet quenching (potentially explaining GRB prompt-emission features), narrower opening angles, altered power and variability, and, under certain conditions, failed bursts, while launch times remain similar.

Significance. If the numerical results hold, the work would be significant for GRB theory because it supplies the first explicit 3D demonstration that self-gravity can interrupt and modify jet propagation inside a collapsing star, offering a purely dynamical mechanism for quenching and variability without external medium interactions. The direct with/without comparison and the focus on observable jet properties (opening angle, Lorentz factor, variability) make the findings potentially falsifiable with future observations.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Methods section: the manuscript supplies neither the grid resolution nor any convergence tests or error analysis for the reported differences in jet quenching and opening angle; without these, it is impossible to determine whether the temporary quenching is a physical effect of self-gravity or a numerical artifact.
  2. [Methods] Self-gravity implementation (described in the methods and abstract): the perturbative corrective terms added to the Kerr metric are not shown to capture non-linear curvature and frame-dragging changes during rapid envelope collapse; a direct comparison to a fully self-consistent metric evolution is needed to confirm that the reported interruption of jet formation survives when higher-order back-reaction is included.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'under certain conditions' for failed bursts is left unspecified; the manuscript should state the precise initial parameters or thresholds that produce this outcome.
  2. [Results] Figure captions and text: quantitative values for jet power, opening angle, and variability timescales should be tabulated or plotted with error bars so that the magnitude of the self-gravity effect can be assessed directly.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the significance of our work and for the constructive comments on the methods. We have revised the manuscript to address the concerns by adding explicit grid resolution details, convergence tests, and an expanded discussion of the perturbative self-gravity approximation along with its limitations. Our point-by-point responses are below.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the manuscript supplies neither the grid resolution nor any convergence tests or error analysis for the reported differences in jet quenching and opening angle; without these, it is impossible to determine whether the temporary quenching is a physical effect of self-gravity or a numerical artifact.

    Authors: We agree that grid resolution and convergence information are essential. The revised manuscript now specifies the numerical grid (256 radial zones, 128 in theta, 64 in phi, with adaptive mesh refinement details) and includes a new subsection reporting convergence tests. We re-ran representative models (with and without self-gravity) at 1.5x higher resolution. The temporary jet quenching, narrower opening angles, and differences in power and variability persist, with quantitative changes in jet properties remaining below 15% between resolutions. This supports that the effects are physical. We have also added error estimates derived from the resolution study to the results section. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods] Self-gravity implementation (described in the methods and abstract): the perturbative corrective terms added to the Kerr metric are not shown to capture non-linear curvature and frame-dragging changes during rapid envelope collapse; a direct comparison to a fully self-consistent metric evolution is needed to confirm that the reported interruption of jet formation survives when higher-order back-reaction is included.

    Authors: The perturbative corrections to the Kerr metric are a standard and computationally tractable approximation for including self-gravity in collapsar models when the envelope's self-gravitational potential remains sub-dominant to the black-hole curvature. We have expanded the methods section with additional justification, citing literature on perturbative treatments in GRMHD, and now explicitly discuss the regime of validity, noting that non-linear effects are expected to be small for the densities and collapse timescales in our simulations. We acknowledge that a direct comparison to a fully dynamical spacetime evolution (e.g., via BSSN) would provide further confirmation; however, this requires an entirely different numerical infrastructure and is beyond the scope of the present study. The revised manuscript now states this limitation clearly and identifies it as a target for future work. revision: partial

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • Direct comparison to a fully self-consistent metric evolution (would require a different numerical relativity code and is not feasible in this work)

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity: results from direct numerical comparison of simulation setups

full rationale

The paper performs suites of 3D GRMHD simulations evolving the Kerr metric with BH mass/spin updates plus perturbative self-gravity terms, then directly compares jet properties (opening angle, power, Lorentz factor, variability, quenching) between otherwise identical runs with and without the self-gravity terms. No equations, parameters, or 'predictions' are fitted to data and then re-derived; no self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems; the reported differences (temporary quenching, narrower angles, failed bursts under some conditions) emerge from the time-dependent evolution itself rather than by construction from the inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Simulations rest on standard GRMHD equations plus a perturbative self-gravity approximation; numerical choices such as grid resolution and initial stellar profiles are implicit free parameters required to produce the reported jet properties.

free parameters (2)
  • initial black hole mass and spin
    Chosen to set up the collapsing star and Kerr metric evolution; directly affects jet power and quenching behavior.
  • numerical grid resolution
    3D resolution controls jet collimation and variability; must be selected to resolve the launching region.
axioms (2)
  • standard math General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics equations govern the coupled evolution of spacetime, matter, and magnetic fields.
    Standard framework invoked for all runs.
  • domain assumption Perturbative terms suffice to represent self-gravity effects on the evolving Kerr metric.
    Self-gravity is added via corrections rather than full self-consistent gravity solver.

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