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Outflow from unmagnetized shocked radiative transonic accretion disk around a black hole

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-04-14 v2

Abstract

We study outflow from an unmagnetized, shocked accretion disk around a non-rotating super-massive black hole using multidimensional hydrodynamics simulation with radiative cooling. We aim to investigate whether such shocked accretion flow can launch sustained collimated bipolar outflow reaching out to thousands of gravitational radii even in the absence of magnetic field and if yes, what terminal velocity can they achieve? We present the results of a few simulations of geometrically thick accretion flow with increasing specific angular momentum on a vertically elongated cylindrical domain. We show thatbipolar outflow from a region very close to the black hole is originating and propagating vertically out to our simulation domain boundary at around 26512651 Schwarzschild radius. The outflow attains a terminal velocity with a maximum value found to be 0.14c0.14c and the outflow rate depends on the angular momentum value of the accreting material. We also compute the self-Comptonized bremsstrahlung spectra for all the disk-jet runs.

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@article{arxiv.2603.01180,
  title  = {Outflow from unmagnetized shocked radiative transonic accretion disk around a black hole},
  author = {Arghya Chaudhuri and Apurba Ghosh and Sudip K Garain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01180},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

18 pages, 9 Figures, 1 table, accepted in RAA