SMBH accretion & mergers: removing the symmetries
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-16 v1
Abstract
We review recent progress in studying accretion flows on to supermassive black holes (SMBH). Much of this removes earlier assumptions of symmetry and regularity, such as aligned and prograde disc rotation. This allows a much richer variety of effects, often because cancellation of angular momentum allows rapid infall. Potential applications include lower SMBH spins allowing faster mass growth and suppressing gravitational-wave reaction recoil in mergers, gas-assisted SMBH mergers, and near-dynamical accretion in galaxy centres.
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@article{arxiv.1307.3255,
title = {SMBH accretion & mergers: removing the symmetries},
author = {Andrew King and Chris Nixon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3255},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 3 figures. Invited article for the focus issue on astrophysical black holes in Classical and Quantum Gravity, guest editors: D. Merritt and L. Rezzolla