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Relativistic Low Angular Momentum Advective Flows onto Black Hole and associated observational signatures

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-12-18 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present simulation results examining the presence and behavior of standing shocks in zero-energy low angular momentum advective accretion flows and explore their (in)stabilities properties taking into account various specific angular momentum, λ0\lambda_0. Within the range 1050Rg10-50R_g (where RgR_g denotes the Schwarzschild radius), shocks are discernible for λ01.75\lambda_0\geq 1.75. In the special relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD) simulation when λ0=1.80\lambda_0 = 1.80, we find the merger of two shocks resulted in a dramatic increase in luminosity. We present the impact of external and internal flow collisions from the funnel region on luminosity. Notably, oscillatory behavior characterizes shocks within 1.70λ01.801.70 \leq \lambda_0 \leq 1.80. Using free-free emission as a proxy for analysis, we shows that the luminosity oscillations between frequencies of 0.1100.1-10 Hz for λ0\lambda_0 range 1.7λ01.801.7 \leq \lambda_0 \leq 1.80. These findings offer insights into quasi-periodic oscillations emissions from certain black hole X-ray binaries, exemplified by GX 339-4. Furthermore, for the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, Sgr A*, oscillation frequencies between 10610^{-6} and 10510^{-5} Hz were observed. This frequency range, translating to one cycle every few days, aligns with observational data from the X-ray telescopes such as Chandra, Swift, and XMM-Newton.

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@article{arxiv.2412.12817,
  title  = {Relativistic Low Angular Momentum Advective Flows onto Black Hole and associated observational signatures},
  author = {Jun-Xiang Huang and Chandra B. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.12817},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in the Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA) journal