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Viscous evolution of a massive disk surrounding stellar-mass black holes in full general relativity

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-01-04 v1

Abstract

Long-term viscous neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive disk surrounding spinning stellar-mass black holes with mass MBH=4M_{\rm BH}=4, 66, and 10M10M_\odot and initial dimensionless spin χ0.8\chi \approx 0.8. The initial disk is chosen to have mass Mdisk0.1M_{\rm disk}\approx 0.1 or 3M3M_\odot as plausible models of the remnants for the merger of black hole-neutron star binaries or the stellar core collapse from a rapidly rotating progenitor, respectively. For Mdisk0.1MM_{\rm disk} \approx 0.1M_\odot with the outer disk edge initially located at rout200r_{\rm out} \sim 200 km, we find that 1515%-2020% of MdiskM_{\rm disk} is ejected and the average electron fraction of the ejecta is Ye=0.30\langle Y_e \rangle = 0.30-0.350.35 as found in the previous study. For Mdisk3MM_{\rm disk} \approx 3M_\odot, we find that 10\approx 10%-2020% of MdiskM_{\rm disk} is ejected for rout200r_{\rm out}\approx 200-10001000 km. In addition, Ye\langle Y_e \rangle of the ejecta can be enhanced to be 0.4\gtrsim 0.4 because the electron fraction is increased significantly during the long-term viscous expansion of the disk with high neutrino luminosity until the mass ejection sets in. Our results suggest that not heavy rr-process elements but light trans-iron elements would be synthesized in the matter ejected from a massive torus surrounding stellar-mass black holes. We also find that the outcomes of the viscous evolution for the high-mass disk case is composed of a rapidly spinning black hole surrounded by a torus with a narrow funnel, which appears to be suitable for generating gamma-ray bursts.

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@article{arxiv.2009.03895,
  title  = {Viscous evolution of a massive disk surrounding stellar-mass black holes in full general relativity},
  author = {Sho Fujibayashi and Masaru Shibata and Shinya Wanajo and Kenta Kiuchi and Koutarou Kyutoku and Yuichiro Sekiguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03895},
  year   = {2021}
}

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25 pages, 17 figures