English

Inter--disks inversion surfaces

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-10-07 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We consider a counter--rotating torus orbiting a central Kerr black hole (\textbf{BH}) with dimensionless spin aa, and its accretion flow into the \textbf{BH}, in an agglomerate of an outer counter--rotating torus and an inner co--rotating torus. This work focus is the analysis of the inter--disks inversion surfaces. Inversion surfaces are spacetime surfaces, defined by the condition uϕ=0u^{\phi}=0 on the flow torodial velocity, located out of the \textbf{BH} ergoregion, and totally embedding the \textbf{BH}. They emerge as a necessary condition, related to the spacetime frame--dragging, for the counter--rotating flows into the central Kerr \textbf{BH}. In our analysis we study the inversion surfaces of the Kerr spacetimes for the counter--rotating flow from the outer torus, impacting on the inner co--rotating disk. Being totally or partially embedded in (internal to) the inversion surfaces, the inner co--rotating torus (or jet) could be totally or in part ``shielded", respectively, from the impact with flow with auϕ<0a u^{\phi}<0. We prove that, in general, in the spacetimes with a<0.551a<0.551 the co--rotating toroids are always external to the accretion flows inversion surfaces. For 0.551<a<0.8860.551<a<0.886, co--rotating toroids could be partially internal (with the disk inner region, including the inner edge) in the flow inversion surface. For \textbf{BHs} with a>0.886a>0.886, a co--rotating torus could be entirely embedded in the inversion surface and, for larger spins, it is internal to the inversion surfaces. Tori orbiting in the \textbf{BH} outer ergoregion are a particular case. Further constraints on the \textbf{BHs} spins are discussed in the article.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.03360,
  title  = {Inter--disks inversion surfaces},
  author = {D. Pugliese and Z. Stuchlik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03360},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

28 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables. To appear in EPJC

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