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We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

Gravitational instability plays an important role in driving gas accretion in massive protostellar discs. Particularly strong is the global gravitational instability, which arises when the disc mass is of order 0.1 of the mass of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Harsono , R. D. Alexander , Yuri Levin

Dark-matter halos are the scaffolding around which galaxies and clusters are built. They form when the gravitational instability of primordial density fluctuations causes regions which are denser than average to slow their cosmic expansion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Hugo Martel , Kyungjin Ahn , Marcelo A. Alvarez

Utilizing various gauges of the radial coordinate we give a description of static spherically symmetric space-times with point singularity at the center and vacuum outside the singularity. We show that in general relativity (GR) there exist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Plamen Fiziev

We consider effects of the MHD turbulence on the viscosity during the evolution of the thermal-viscous ionization instability in the standard $\alpha$-accretion disks. We consider the possibility that the accretion onto a supermassive black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Aneta Siemiginowska , Ryszard Szczerba

We develop a model for the outer gravitationally unstable regions of accretion disks around massive black holes, for primeval or solar abundances. First we study star formation and evolution in a purely gaseous marginally unstable disk, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Suzy Collin , Jean-Paul Zahn

The crucial role played by pressure in general relativity is explored in the mathematically simple context of a static spherically symmetric geometry. By keeping all pressure terms, the standard formalisms of rotation curve and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tristan Faber

Accretion is a common phenomenon associated with any astrophysical compact object, which is best described by plasma, a state of matter composed of electrons and heavy ions. In this paper, we analyze the linear dynamics of electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Avijit Chowdhury , Shauvik Biswas , Sumanta Chakraborty

We consider the combined role of the thermal ionization, magneto-rotational and gravitational instabilities in thin accretion disks around supermassive black holes. We find that in the portions of the disk unstable to the ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert

Three well known exact regular solutions of general relativity (GR) coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics (NED), namely the Maxwellian, Bardeen and Hayward regular spacetimes, which can describe either a regular black hole or a geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-29 Bobir Toshmatov , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Daniele Malafarina

We present results of models of the physical space and parameters of the accretion disk of Sagittarius A*, as well as simulations of its emergent spectrum. This begins with HARM, a 2D general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-18 Guy Hilburn , Edison Liang , Siming Liu , Hui Li

With the fundamental stress mechanism of accretion disks identified--correlated MHD turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability--it has become possible to make numerical simulations of accretion disk dynamics based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 J. H. Krolik

We present "radially-resolved-equilibrium-models" for the growth of stellar and gaseous disks in cosmologically accreting massive halos. Our focus is on objects that evolve to redshifts $z\sim 2$. We solve the time-dependent equations that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-29 Ben Rathaus , Amiel Sternberg

The construction of equilibrium models of accretion disks around compact objects has become a highly relevant topic in the recent times, thanks to the current understanding that indicates a direct relationship between these objects with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Sergio Gimeno-Soler , Sayantani Lahiri , Claus Lämmerzahl

This paper studies the nonlinear evolution of magnetic field turbulence in proximity of steady ideal MHD configurations characterized by a small electric current, a small plasma flow, and approximate flux surfaces, a physical setting that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

We present a detailed study of localised magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) instabilities occuring in two--dimensional magnetized accretion disks. We model axisymmetric MHD disk tori, and solve the equations governing a two--dimensional magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

We are concerned with the 3D incompressible Hall-magnetohydro-dynamic system (Hall-MHD). Our first aim is to provide the reader with an elementary proof of a global well-posedness result for small data with critical Sobolev regularity, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Raphaël Danchin , Jin Tan

In this paper, we develop the analysis of a two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical configuration for an axially symmetric and rotating plasma (embedded in a dipole like magnetic field), modeling the structure of a thin accretion disk around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini

In this paper, we study electromeganetic static spacetimes in the nonrelativisitc general covariant theory of the Horava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity, proposed recently by Horava and Melby-Thompson, and present all the electric static solutions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-02 Ahmad Borzou , Kai Lin , Anzhong Wang

This paper presents a continuation of our efforts to numerically study accretion disks that are misaligned (tilted) with respect to the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole. Here we present results of a global numerical simulation which fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chris Fragile , Omer M. Blaes , Peter Anninos , Jay D. Salmonson