English
Related papers

Related papers: Line emission from optically thick relativistic ac…

200 papers

This paper continues the analysis of a set of general relativistic 3D MHD simulations of accreting tori in the Kerr metric with different black hole spins. We focus on bound matter inside the initial pressure maximum, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley , Shigenobu Hirose

We study geometrically thick non-self gravitating equilibrium tori orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in swirling universes. This solution is axially symmetric and non-asymptotically flat, and its north and south hemispheres spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Chengjia Chen , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

The radiation fields external to the jets and originating from within a few parsecs from the black hole, are discussed in this paper. They are the direct radiation from an accretion disk in symbiosis with jets, the radiation field from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. -C. Donea , R. J. Protheroe

We systematically perform long-term (millions of Schwarzschild time) axisymmetric viscous hydrodynamics simulations for tori around black holes in general relativity supposing the super Eddington accretion flow. The initial condition for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Masaru Shibata , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam

The Broad Emission Lines (BELs) in spectra of type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be very complex, indicating a complex Broad Line Region (BLR) geometry. According to the standard unification model one can expect an accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Bon , N. Gavrilovic , G. La Mura , L. C. Popovic

We construct detailed vertical structure models of irradiated accretion disks around T Tauri stars with interstellar medium dust uniformly mixed with gas. The dependence of the structure and emission properties on mass accretion rate,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paola D'Alessio , Nuria Calvet , Lee Hartmann , Susana Lizano , Jorge Canto

Infrared spectroscopy of the H-alpha emission lines of a sub-sample of 19 high-redshift (0.8 < z < 2.3) Molonglo quasars, selected at 408 MHz, is presented. These emission lines are fitted with composite models of broad and narrow emission,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. J. Down , S. Rawlings , D. S. Sivia , J. C. Baker

The majority of low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs) harbor supermassive black holes with very low accretion rates. However, the accretion flows do not produce enough ionizing photons to power the emission lines emitted on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 M. Molina , M. Eracleous , A. J. Barth , D. Maoz , J. C. Runnoe , L. C. Ho , J. C. Shields , J. L. Walsh

The co-evolution between black holes and galaxies suggests that feedback of active galactic nuclei influence host galaxies through ejecting radiative and kinetic energies to surroundings. Larger scale outflow in local universe are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Zhenzhen Li , Hongyan Zhou , Lei Hao , Xiheng Shi

To gain a better understanding of the inner disc region that comprises active galactic nuclei it is necessary to understand the pattern in which the disc is illuminated (the emissivity profile) by X-rays emitted from the continuum source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 A. G. Gonzalez , D. R. Wilkins , L. C. Gallo

We study the effects of emission geometry on the capability to constrain black hole parameters from measurements of the shadow and inner-shadow of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We investigate the capability to constrain mass, charge,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Julien A. Kearns , Dominic O. Chang , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Shane W. Davis

We address the ability of broad iron emission lines from black hole accretion disks to diagnose the spin of the black hole. Using a high-resolution 3-dimensional MHD simulation of a geometrically-thin accretion disk in a Pseudo-Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher S. Reynolds , Andrew C. Fabian

We use a ray-tracing technique to compute the observed spectrum of a thin accretion disk around a Kerr black hole. We include all relativistic effects such as frame-dragging, Doppler boost, gravitational redshift, and bending of light by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Li-Xin Li , Erik R. Zimmerman , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

There is strong observational evidence that many active galactic nuclei (AGNs) harbour supermassive black holes (SMBHs), demonstrating multi-accretion episodes during their lifetime. In such AGNs, corotating and counterrotating tori, or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlik

Recent X-ray observations have shown broad, skewed iron line emission from Seyfert 1 galaxies which is explained by the emission being fluorescence on a disk close to a black hole. During one interval, the line in MCG--6-30-15 was so broad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Y. Dabrowski , A. C. Fabian , K. Iwasawa , A. N. Lasenby , C. S. Reynolds

The illumination of the accretion disc in a neutron star X-ray binary by X-rays emitted from (or close to) the neutron star surface is explored through general relativistic ray tracing simulations. The applicability of the canonical suite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 D. R. Wilkins

The Kerr spacetime is symmetric with respect to a well-defined equatorial plane. When testing the equatorial reflection symmetry of an isolated black hole, one is at the same time testing the Kerr hypothesis in General Relativity. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-23 Che-Yu Chen , Hung-Yi Pu

Techniques of calculation of emission line profiles formed in a non--uniform accretion disk is presented. Change of the profile shape as a function of phase turn of the disk with a bright spot on the surface is analysed. A possibility of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. V. Borisov , V. V. Neustroev

We determine the properties of the stellar torus that we showed in a previous paper to result as a product of two merging black holes. If the surrounding stellar cluster is as massive as the binary black hole, the torque acting on the stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Zier , Peter L. Biermann

We develope a self-consistent description of the Broad Line Region based on the concept of the failed wind powered by the radiation pressure acting on dusty accretion disk atmosphere in Keplerian motion. The material raised high above the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-15 Bozena Czerny , Yan-Rong Li , Justyna Sredzinska , Krzysztof Hryniewicz , Swayam Panda , Conor Wildy , Vladimir Karas