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List of works by Mitchell C. Begelman

A critical analysis of ideal magnetohydrodynamic models for Crab-like pulsar winds

scientific article published in January 1998

A good long look at the black hole candidates LMC X-1 and LMC X-3

scholarly article by M. A. Nowak et al published 21 January 2001 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

A large-particle Monte Carlo code for simulating non-linear high-energy processes near compact objects

scholarly article

A mechanism for hysteresis in black hole binary state transitions

scientific article published in January 2014

A model for the moving ``wisps'' in the Crab nebula

scientific article published in January 1999

A randomized comparison of two clarithromycin doses for treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex infections

scientific article published on January 1997

A spine-sheath model for strong-line blazars

scientific article published in January 2016

A twin-jet model for radio trails

scientific article published in Nature

A two-dimensional model for the Crab pulsar wind bubble

scientific article

A well-fed black hole

scientific article published in Nature

ARossi X‐Ray Timing ExplorerStudy of M87 and the Core of the Virgo Cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Accretion disc dynamo activity in local simulations spanning weak-to-strong net vertical magnetic flux regimes

scientific article published in January 2016

Accretion discs with strong toroidal magnetic fields

scientific article published in January 2007

Accretion disk dynamo as the trigger for X-ray binary state transitions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Accretion of low angular momentum material onto black holes: two-dimensional hydrodynamical inviscid case

scholarly article by Proga D. & Begelman M. C. published 2003 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Accretion of low angular momentum material onto black holes: two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic case

scholarly article by Proga D. & Begelman M. C. published 2003 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

An X-ray heated wind in NGC 1068

An axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic model for the Crab pulsar wind bubble

scientific article published in January 1992

Analysis of the synchrotron emission from the M87 jet

scientific article

Angular momentum transfer and lack of fragmentation in self-gravitating accretion flows

scientific article published in January 2009

Are quasar jets dominated by poynting flux?

scientific article

Astronomy. A flare for acceleration

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Asymptotic domination of cold relativistic MHD winds by kinetic energy flux

scientific article published in January 1994

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the collapsar model for gamma-ray bursts

Bars within bars: a mechanism for fuelling active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in Nature

Beam models for SS 433

scientific article published in January 1980

Beaming and rapid variability of high-energy radiation from relativistic pair plasma reconnection

scholarly article

Broad, variable absorption lines in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3516 : probing the structure of the emission line regions

scientific article published in January 1986

Broad, variable absorption lines in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3516: probing the structure of the emission-line regions

scientific article published in January 1987

Circular polarization from stochastic synchrotron sources

scientific article published in January 2002

Cluster heating by viscous dissipation of sound waves

scholarly article

Collimation and confinement of magnetic jets by external media

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Compton heated winds and coronae above accretion disks. I. Dynamics

Compton heated winds and coronae above accretion disks. II. Radiative transfer and observable consequences

Comptonization in supercritical winds. II. Dynamics and observational diagnostics

scholarly article

Comptonization of diffuse ambient radiation by a relativistic jet: the source of gamma rays from blazars ?

scientific article published in January 1994

Conference summary

scientific article published in January 1997

Consequences of Relativistic Proton Injection in Active Galactic Nuclei: Erratum

scientific article

Consequences of relativistic proton injection in active galactic nuclei

scientific article

Constraining the location of gamma-ray flares in luminous blazars

scientific article published in January 2014

Constraining the structure of gamma-ray burst jets through the logN-logS distribution

scientific article published in January 2005

Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function from Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmic ray confinement in fossil cluster bubbles

scientific article

Cyclotron maser emission from blazar jets

Delayed X-ray emission from fallback in compact-object mergers

scientific article published in January 2009

Did Supermassive Black Holes Form by Direct Collapse?

scientific article published in 2008

Direct Collapse to Supermassive Black Hole Seeds with Radiative Transfer: Isolated Halos

scientific article published on 10 February 2018

Direct collapse to supermassive black hole seeds with radiation transfer: cosmological haloes

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Disc outflows and the accretion rate gap

scientific article published in January 2004

Discovery of recurring soft-to-hard state transitions in LMC X-3

scholarly article

Does an orbiting star cause periodic modulation of X-rays from NGC6814?

scientific article published in Nature

Eddington limit and radiative transfer in highly inhomogeneous atmospheres

scientific article published in January 2003

Electromagnetically driven relativistic jets - A class of self-similar solutions

scientific article published in January 1992

Electron and Ion Energization in Relativistic Plasma Turbulence

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Energetic and radiative constraints on highly relativistic jets

Energetic constraints on a rapid gamma-ray flare in PKS 1222+216

scientific article published in January 2012

Entropy ``Floor'' and effervescent heating of intracluster gas

scientific article published in January 2004

Entropy production in relativistic jet boundary layers

scientific article published in January 2015

Evidence for black holes

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2003)

Evolution of and high-energy emission from GHz-peaked spectrum sources

scientific article published in January 2008

Evolution of self-gravitating accretion disks in active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in January 1989

Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation

scientific article published in January 2010

Extreme AGN variability: evidence of magnetically elevated accretion?

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Extreme particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection layers: application to the gamma-ray flares in the Crab nebula

scholarly article

Far-UV emission properties of FR1 radio galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Fast TeV variability from misaligned minijets in the jet of M87

scientific article published in January 2010

Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet

scholarly article

Force-feeding black holes

scientific article published in January 2012

Formation of supermassive black holes by direct collapse in pre-galactic haloes

scholarly article by M. C. Begelman et al published 21 July 2006 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Formation of the dark bays in the Crab optical synchrotron nebula: is the Crab pulsar wind bubble interacting with its progenitors wind ?

scientific article published in January 1992

Galaxy formation in triaxial halos: black Hole-Bulge-Dark halo correlation

scholarly article by El-Zant A. A. et al published 2003 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Gamma-ray burst jet dynamics and their interaction with the progenitor star

scientific article published in May 2007

Gravitational waves confirmed at Texas Symposium

journal article; published in Nature, 1979-01

Heating, conduction, and minimum temperatures in cooling flows

scientific article published in January 2002

Hiding in Plain Sight:ChandraObservations of the Quiescent Neutron Star 4U 2129+47 in Eclipse

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

High-efficiency photospheric emission of long-duration gamma-ray burst jets: the effect of the viewing angle

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hot self-similar relativistic magnetohydrodynamic flows

scholarly article

Hubble space telescope observations of the broad absorption line quasar PG 0946+301

scientific article published in January 1999

Hydrodynamical non-radiative accretion flows in two dimensions

scientific article published in January 1999

Hyperaccreting black holes in galactic nuclei

scientific article published in January 2017

Hyperaccretion during tidal disruption events: weakly bound debris envelopes and jets

scientific article published in January 2014

Implications of very rapid TeV variability in blazars

scientific article

Instability of toroidal magnetic field in jets and plerions

scholarly article

Interaction of a jet with a radiation pressure-dominated atmosphere : the case of SS 433

Intermittent radio galaxies and source statistics

Internal instabilities in magnetized jets

scientific article

Inverse Compton scattering of ambient radiation by a cold relativistic jet - A source of beamed, polarized continuum in blazars?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Ion-supported tori and the origin of radio jets

scientific article published in Nature

Iron fluorescence from within the innermost stable orbit of black hole accretion disks

scholarly article by Reynolds C. S. & Begelman M. C. published 1997 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Jet Acceleration by Tangled Magnetic Fields

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Jet emission in young radio sources: a Fermi large area telescope gamma-ray view

scholarly article

Kinetic Turbulence in Relativistic Plasma: From Thermal Bath to Nonthermal Continuum

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

Local simulations of instabilities in relativistic jets - I. Morphology and energetics of the current-driven instability

scientific article published in January 2012

Luminous arcs from galactic bow shocks

scientific article published in Nature

Magnetic domination of recollimation boundary layers in relativistic jets

scientific article published in January 2012

Magnetic flux paradigm for radio loudness of active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in January 2013

Magnetically elevated accretion discs in active galactic nuclei: broad emission-line regions and associated star formation

scientific article published in January 2017

Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in Nature

Massive black hole binary mergers within subparsec scale gas discs

scholarly article by J. Cuadra et al published 11 March 2009 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Mechanical heating by active galaxies

scientific article published in March 2005

Modeling the double-trough structure observed in broad absorption line QSOs using radiative acceleration

scientific article published in January 1994

Modeling the production of flares in gamma-ray quasars

scientific article published in January 2001

Non-thermal emission from the photospheres of gamma-ray burst outflows. I. High-frequency tails

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Non-thermal particle acceleration in collisionless relativistic electron-proton reconnection

scientific article published in January 2018

Nonlinear photon bubbles driven by buoyancy

scientific article published in January 2006

Numerical investigation of kinetic turbulence in relativistic pair plasmas - I. Turbulence statistics

scientific article published in January 2018

On multiwavelength emission of large-scale quasar jets

scientific article published in January 2004

On the Geometry of the X-Ray–emitting Region in Seyfert Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the deep minimum state in the Seyfert galaxy MCG−6-30-15

scientific article

On the distribution of particle acceleration sites in plasmoid-dominated relativistic magnetic reconnection

On the fate of gas accreting at a low rate on to a black hole

scholarly article by Blandford R. D. & Begelman M. C. published 1999 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

On the interaction of the PKS B1358-113 radio galaxy with the A1836 cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the structure of tidally disrupted stellar debris streams

scientific article

Oscillations of windy accretion disks in X-ray sources and QSOs

scientific article published in January 1983

Outflows driven by cosmic-ray pressure in broad absorption line QSOs

scientific article published in January 1991

Overpressured cocoons in extragalactic radio sources

scientific article published in January 1989

Overpressured jets confined by underexpanded cocoons

scientific article published in January 1986

Photon bubbles and the vertical structure of accretion disks

scientific article published in January 2006

Photospheric emission as the dominant radiation mechanism in long-duration gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Polarimetry and the high-energy emission mechanisms in quasar jets: the case of PKS 1136-135

scientific article published in January 2013

Polarization signature of gamma-ray bursts from fragmented fireballs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Post-periapsis pancakes: sustenance for self-gravity in tidal disruption events

scientific article published in January 2016

Production of self-absorbed synchrotron spectra steeper than ν5/2

scientific article published in Nature

Propagation of relativistic jets through dense radiation fields in AGN

Quantifying energetics and dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

scientific article

Quasi-stars and the cosmic evolution of massive black holes

scientific article published in January 2010

Quasi-stars: accreting black holes inside massive envelopes

scholarly article by Mitchell C. Begelman et al published 11 July 2008 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

RXTE Monitoring of LMC X-3

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RXTE observation of Cygnus X-1 -- I. Spectral analysis

scholarly article

RXTE observation of Cygnus X-1: Spectral analysis

Radiation-driven warping. II. Nonisothermal disks

scholarly article

Radiation-driven warping: the origin of warps and precession in accretion disks

Radiation-viscous boundary layers

scientific article published in January 1992

Radiative acceleration of dusty interstellar medium in quasars and Seyferts

scholarly article in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 15, 1983

Radiative excitation of molecules near powerful compact radio sources

scientific article published in January 1994

Radiative properties of reconnection-powered minijets in blazars

scientific article published in January 2011

Radiatively driven outflows and avoidance of common-envelope evolution in close binaries

scientific article published in January 1999

Radiatively inefficient accretion: breezes, winds and hyperaccretion

scientific article published in January 2012

Radio to γ-ray observations of 3C 454.3:1993–1995

Recollimation boundary layers in relativistic jets

scientific article published in January 2012

Reconciling models of luminous blazars with magnetic fluxes determined by radio core-shift measurements

scientific article

Reconnection-powered linear accelerator and gamma-ray flares in the Crab nebula

Rossi X‐Ray Timing ExplorerObservation of Cygnus X‐1. II. Timing Analysis

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Rossi X‐Ray Timing ExplorerObservation of Cygnus X‐1. III. Implications for Compton Corona and Advection‐dominated Accretion Flow Models

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SN 1985f : death of a Wolf-Rayet stars

scientific article published in January 1986

Self-gravitating accretion disks in active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in Nature

Self-regulated black hole accretion, the M-{sigma} relation and the growth of bulges in galaxies

scholarly article by Begelman M. C. & Nath B. B. published 2005 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Self‐Gravitating Fragmentation of Eccentric Accretion Disks

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Self‐consistent Thermal Accretion Disk Corona Models for Compact Objects. I. Properties of the Corona and the Spectrum of Escaping Radiation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Self‐consistent Thermal Accretion Disk Corona Models for Compact Objects. II. Application to Cygnus X‐1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Shock-drift particle acceleration in superluminal shocks : a model for hot spots in extragalactic radio sources

Shocks and Sonic Booms in the Intracluster Medium: X-Ray Shells and Radio Galaxy Activity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Short-duration gamma-ray bursts from off-axis collapsars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Simulations of particle acceleration beyond the classical synchrotron burnoff limit in magnetic reconnection: an explanation of the Crab flares

Small-scale radio jets and tidal disruption events: a theory of high-luminosity compact symmetric objects

scholarly article

Solving the mystery of the X-ray periodicity in the Seyfert galaxy NGC6814

scientific article published in Nature

Solving the mystery of the periodicity in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 6814

scientific article

Spectral hardening as a viable alternative to disc truncation in black hole state transitions

scholarly article by Salvesen G. et al published 2013 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Stable models of heated cooling flows

scientific article published in January 2002

Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA

scientific article published on 13 December 2010

Strongly magnetized accretion discs require poloidal flux

scientific article published in January 2016

Super-Eddington atmospheres that do not blow away

scientific article published in January 2001

Super-Eddington fluxes from thin accretion disks

scholarly article

Supermassive black hole formation at high redshifts via direct collapse in a cosmological context

scientific article published in January 2015

Supermassive black hole formation at high redshifts via direct collapse: physical processes in the early stage

scholarly article by Choi J.-H. et al published 2013 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Supermassive black hole seed formation at high redshifts: long-term evolution of the direct collapse

scholarly article by Shlosman I. et al published 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

System-size convergence of nonthermal particle acceleration in relativistic plasma turbulence

scientific article published in January 2018

Temporal and angular properties of gamma-ray burst jets emerging from massive stars

scientific article published in January 2007

The 67 Hz feature in the black hole candidate GRS 1915+105 as a possible ``diskoseismic'' mode

scientific article published in January 1997

The Compton Mirror in NGC 4151

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Origin of Warped, Precessing Accretion Disks in X-Ray Binaries

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The X-ray-emitting trail of the nearby pulsar PSR1929 + 10

scientific article published in Nature

The broad Fe K-alpha line in MCG -6-30-15

scholarly article

The cauldron at the core of SS 433

scientific article published in January 1984

The effect of poloidal velocity shear on the local development of current-driven instabilities

scientific article published in January 2012

The effects of photon bubble instability in radiation-dominated accretion disks

scientific article published in January 2005

The evolution of a hollow jet

scholarly article in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 19, 1987

The extent of power-law energy spectra in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasmas

scientific article

The fuelling of active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in Nature

The general relativistic equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the viscous limit

scientific article published in January 2014

The hydrodynamics of dead radio galaxies

scholarly article

The nature of SS 433 and the ultraluminous X-ray sources

scientific article published in January 2006

The origin and propagation of variability in the outflows of long-duration gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The physical interpretation of X-ray phase lags and coherence: RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 as a case study

The radiation hydrodynamics of relativistic shear flows

The synchrotron emission from the M87 jet

Theory of extragalactic radio sources

scientific article

Thermal stability of a thin disk with magnetically driven winds

scientific article published in January 2014

Thick fireballs and the steep decay in the early X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published in January 2006

Three-dimensional adaptive mesh refinement simulations of long-duration gamma-ray burst jets inside massive progenitor stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Three-dimensional relativistic pair plasma reconnection with radiative feedback in the Crab nebula

scientific article published in January 2014

Three-dimensional simulations of viscous dissipation in the intracluster medium

scientific article published in January 2004

Tidal disruption events from supermassive black hole binaries

scholarly article by Coughlin E. R. et al published 2017 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Time-dependent ionized reflection: major implications for Fe k{alpha} reverberation studies of AGN

scholarly article

Trapping of magnetic flux by the plunge region of a black hole accretion disk

scientific article published in January 2006

Turbulent mixing layers in the interstellar and intracluster medium

scientific article published in January 1990

Two-dimensional adiabatic flows on to a black hole - I. Fluid accretion

scientific article published in January 2004

Ubiquitous equatorial accretion disc winds in black hole soft states

scientific article published in January 2012

Understanding the kiloparsec-scale structure of M87

scientific article published in January 1996

Unifying the zoo of jet-driven stellar explosions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Universal GRB Jets from Jet‐Cocoon Interaction in Massive Stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Very high efficiency photospheric emission in long-duration {gamma}-ray bursts

scientific article

Viscous boundary layers of radiation-dominated, relativistic jets. I. The two-stream model

scientific article published in January 2015

Viscous boundary layers of radiation-dominated, relativistic jets. II. The free-streaming jet model

scientific article published in January 2015

Which Came First: Supermassive Black Holes or Galaxies? Insights from JWST

scholarly article

Wind, jet, hybrid corona and hard X-ray flares: multiwavelength evolution of GRO J1655-40 during the 2005 outburst rise

scientific article published in January 2016

X-ray flares from propagation instabilities in long gamma-ray burst jets

scholarly article

X-ray flares, neutrino-cooled discs and the dynamics of late accretion in gamma-ray burst engines

scientific article published in January 2008

X-ray iron line reverberation from black hole accretion disks

scholarly article by Reynolds C. S. et al published 1999 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

X-ray-emitting GHz-peaked-spectrum galaxies: testing a dynamical-radiative model with broadband spectra

scientific article published in January 2010

XMM-EPIC observation of MCG-6-30-15: direct evidence for the extraction of energy from a spinning black hole?

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XMM-Newton observations of the broad iron line in MCG-6-30-15

scientific article published in January 2001

X‐Ray Signatures of Evolving Radio Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

[ITAL]Chandra[/ITAL] ACIS-S Observations of Abell 4059: Signs of Dramatic Interaction between a Radio Galaxy and a Galaxy Cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal