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By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

We study the precession of accretion disks in the context of gamma-ray burst inner engines. Our aim is to quantitatively estimate the characteristics of gravitational waves produced by the precession of the transient accretion disk in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-21 Gustavo E. Romero , Matias M. Reynoso , Hugo R. Christiansen

We compute the evolution of a quasi-spherical, slowly rotating accretion flow around a black hole, whose mass and spin evolve adequately to the mass-energy transfer through the horizon. Our model is relevant for the central engine driving a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 Ishika Palit , Agnieszka Janiuk , Petra Sukova

If due attention is given in formulating the basic equations for the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomenon and in performing the corresponding quantitative analysis, GRBs open a main avenue of inquiring on totally new physical and astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , L. Vitagliano , S. -S. Xue

We study the effects of outflow/wind on the gravitational stability of accretion discs around supermassive black holes using a set of analytical steady-state solutions. Mass-loss rate by the outflow from the disc is assumed to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Fazeleh Khajenabi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be powered by the electromagnetic extraction of spin energy from a black hole endowed with a magnetic field supported by electric currents in a surrounding disk (Blandford & Znajek 1977). A generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Antonios Nathanail , Achillies Strantzalis , Ioannis Contopoulos

The collapse of massive rotating stellar cores and the associated accretion onto the newborn compact object is thought to power long gamma ray bursts (GRBs). The physical scale and dynamics of the accretion disk are initially set by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Aldo Batta , William H. Lee

Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-11 Margherita Giustini , Daniel Proga

We consider a jet-disk symbiosis model to explain Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows. It is proposed that GRBs develop in a pre-existing jet. We consider a binary system formed by a neutron star and an O/B/WR companion in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Giovanna Pugliese , Heino Falcke , Peter L. Biermann

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the universe, driven by relativistic jets launched from black holes (BHs) formed during the collapse of massive stars or after the merger of two neutron stars (NSs). The jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhao-Feng Wu , Michail Damoulakis , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

Recurring outbursts associated with matter flowing onto compact stellar remnants (black-holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs) in close binary systems, provide strong test beds for constraining the poorly understood accretion process. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 B. E. Tetarenko , J. -P. Lasota , C. O. Heinke , G. Dubus , G. R. Sivakoff

An extreme Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a precessing disk is invoked to explain the light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and the magnetic coupling (MC) processes. The overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-16 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , B. P. Gong , C. Y. Huang

Outflows are inevitably driven from the disk if the vertical component of the black hole (BH) gravity cannot resist the radiation force. We derive the mass loss rate in the outflows by solving a dynamical equation for the vertical gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu

We consider a jet-disk symbiosis model to explain Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows. It is proposed that GRBs are created inside a pre-existing jet from a neutron star in a binary system which collapses to a black hole due to accretion.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Giovanna Pugliese , Heino Falcke , Yiping Wang , Peter L. Biermann

The immense power of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) make them ideal probes of the early universe. By using absorption lines in the afterglows of high-redshift GRBs, astronomers can study the evolution of metals in the early universe. With an…

We calculate the structure of accretion disk around a spinning black hole for accretion rates 0.01 - 10 M_sun/s. The model is fully relativistic and treats accurately the disk microphysics including neutrino emissivity, opacity, electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Wen-xin Chen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized proto-neutron stars ("millisecond proto-magnetars") are candidate central engines of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRB), superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), and binary neutron star mergers. Magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Brian D. Metzger , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

Whether a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) is caused by a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS) after the merger of a NS binary is a crucial problem. We propose a BH model that explains short GRBs with long-lasting activities such as extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka

Long and short gamma-ray bursts are traditionally associated with galactic environments, where circumburst densities are small or moderate (few to hundreds of protons per cubic cm). However, both are also expected to occur in the disks of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Davide Lazzati , Gustavo Soares , Rosalba Perna

In this paper, we present the stationary axisymmetric configuration of a resistive magnetised thick accretion disc in the vicinity of external gravity and intrinsic dipolar magnetic field of a slowly rotating black hole. The plasma is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mahboobeh Shaghaghian