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Multi-wavelength observations suggest that the accretion disk in the hard and intermediate states of X-ray binaries (XRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGN) transitions from a cold, thin disk at large distances into a hot, thick flow close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 M. T. P. Liska , G. Musoke , A. Tchekhovskoy , O. Porth , A. M. Beloborodov

The morphology of adiabatic accretion flows with small non-zero specific angular momentum has been investigated in the axisymmetric and nonviscous limit. For an initial state characterized by a Bondi flow with the specific angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xingming Chen , Ronald E. Taam , Marek A. Abramowicz , Igor V. Igumenshchev

A model for axisymmetric magnetized accretion flow is proposed. The dominant mechanism of energy dissipation is assumed to be the magnetic diffusivity due to turbulence in the accretion flow. In analogy to the advection-dominated accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohsen Shadmehri

We perform three-dimensional radiation-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (3D Rad-RMHD) simulations of accretion flows around spinning active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our study focuses on the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, adopting a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

Employing 3D GRMHD simulation, we study the images of a geometrically thin jet, whose emissions concentrate on its surface, for accretion system surrounding a central spinning BH. By introducing a strong magnetic field, we observe three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Ye Shen , Yehui Hou , Zhong-Ying Fan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

Large-scale magnetic fields play a vital role in determining the angular momentum transport and generating jets/outflows in the accreting systems, yet their origin remains poorly understood. We focus on radiatively inefficient accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Prasun Dhang , Xue-Ning Bai , Christopher J. White

Accreting supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) are potential multi-messenger sources because they emit both gravitational wave and electromagnetic (EM) radiation. Past work has shown that their EM output may be periodically modulated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Yosef Zlochower , Bruno C. Mundim , Hiroyuki Nakano , Miguel Zilhão

We present a comprehensive analysis of four near-Eddington black hole accretion models computed by solving the GRMHD equations with full radiation transport. This study focuses on the dynamical effects of magnetic field topology and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen , Christopher J. White

Grid-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have proven invaluable for the study of astrophysical accretion disks. However, the fact that angular momentum transport in disks is mediated by MHD turbulence (with structure down to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kareem A. Sorathia , Christopher S. Reynolds , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

We have performed 2.5-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the gravitational collapse of a magnetized rotating massive star as a model of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). The current calculation focuses on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosuke Mizuno , Shoichi Yamada , Shinji Koide , Kazunari Shibata

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim

We present our numerical results of two-dimensional hydrodynamic (HD) simulations and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse of rotating massive stars in light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Pushed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 Seiji Harikae , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We calculate the structure and short-term evolution of a gamma ray burst central engine in the form of a turbulent torus accreting onto a stellar mass black hole. Our models apply to the short gamma ray burst events, in which a remnant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Agnieszka Janiuk , Patryk Mioduszewski , Monika Moscibrodzka

Accretion on to seed black holes (BHs) is believed to play a crucial role in formation of supermassive BHs observed at high-redshift (z>6). Here, we investigate the combined effect of gas angular momentum and radiation feedback on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-24 Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Hidenobu Yajima , Kohei Inayoshi , Kazuyuki Omukai

We study the small scale magnetic reconnection above the radiative inefficient accretion flow around massive black hole via 2D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulation, in order to model the blob formation and ejection from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-22 Tian-Le Zhao , Ye-Fei Yuan , Rajiv Kumar

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, where dynamically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Koushik Chatterjee , Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff

The existence of outflow and magnetic field in the inner region of hot accretion flows have been confirmed by observations and numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations (MHD). We present self-similar solutions for radiation inefficiently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Abbassi , A. Mosallanezhad

An exact model for magnetized and rotating outflows, underpressured at their axis, is analysed by means of a nonlinear separation of the variables in the two-dimensional governing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations for axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Sauty , E. Trussoni , K. Tsinganos

Fast and slow magnetosonic shock formation is presented for stationary and axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) accretion flows onto a black hole. The shocked black hole accretion solution must pass through magnetosonic points at some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Takahashi , J. Goto , K. Fukumura , D. Rilett , S. Tsuruta

We have carried out a numerical study of the effect of large scale magnetic fields on the rate of accretion from a uniform, isothermal gas onto a resistive, stationary point mass. Only mass, not magnetic flux, accretes onto the point mass.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrew J. Cunningham , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Mark R. Krumholz , Romain Teyssier