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We introduce a novel formalism to investigate the role of the spin angular momentum of astrophysical black holes in influencing the behaviour of low angular momentum general relativistic accretion. We propose a metric independent analysis…

We study viscous transonic accretion flows in vertical equilibrium in Kerr geometry. We employ the pseudo-Kerr formalism which accurately describes transonic flows around Kerr black holes and is applicable for modelling observational data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Abhrajit Bhattacharjee , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The hydrodynamics of low-angular-momentum, multi-transonic, axisymmetric, inviscid accretion flow onto a rotating black hole has been systematically investigated using three distinct disc geometries and two thermodynamic equations of state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Ripon Sk , Sangita Chatterjee , Sankhasubhra Nag

Low-angular-momentum, axisymmetric, inviscid accretion flows onto a black hole have been studied using the vertical equilibrium disc model, considering multiple pseudo-Schwarzschild potentials and two thermodynamic equations of state. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Ripon Sk , Sangita Chatterjee , Sankhasubhra Nag

In this paper, we study the accretion process for fluids flowing near a black hole in the context of $f(T)$ teleparallel gravity. Specifically, by performing a dynamical analysis by a Hamiltonian system, we are able to find the sonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-20 Ayyesha K. Ahmed , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Sebastian Bahamonde , Salvatore Capozziello , Mubasher Jamil

We study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations around the black holes having non-zero rotation. We first compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dinshaw S. Balsara

Analytical studies of black hole accretion usually presumes the stability of the stationary transonic configuration. Various authors in the past several decades demonstrated the validity of such an assumption for inviscid hydrodynamic flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Deepika B. Ananda , Soumini Chaudhury , Tapas K. Das , Ishita Maity , Sankhasubhra Nag

The topologies are obtained for accretion flows around black holes as the parameters, accretion rate and specific angular momentum are varied. Paczy{\'n}ski-Wiita pseudo-Newtonian potential is used to mimic the gravitational field of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Sivakumar G. Manickam

For the first time, {\it all} available pseudo-Schwarzschild potentials are exhaustively used to investigate the possibility of shock formation in hydrodynamic, invicid, black hole accretion discs. It is shown that a significant region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tapas Kumar Das

Observations are providing increasingly detailed quantitative information about the accretion flows that power such high energy systems as X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. Analytic models of such systems must rely on assumptions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Hawley , J. -P. De Villiers

The dynamics of accretion onto a schwarzschild black hole is studied using Paczynski-Wiita pseudo newtonian potential. Steady state solution of the flow equations is obtained using thin disc approximation, including the effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sivakumar G. Manickam , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We analytically study how the behaviour of accretion flows changes when the flow model is varied. We study the transonic properties of the conical flow, a flow of constant height and a flow in vertical equilibrium and show that all these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. K. Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

Accretion onto supermassive black holes produces both the dramatic phenomena associated with active galactic nuclei and the underwhelming displays seen in the Galactic Center and most other nearby galaxies. I review selected aspects of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Philip J. Armitage

In this work we would like to address the issue of shock formation in black hole accretion discs. We provide a {\it generalized two parameter solution scheme} for multi-transonic, accretion and wind around Schwarzschild black holes, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tapas Kumar Das , Jayant K. Pendharkar , Sanjit Mitra

We study the problem of a spherically-symmetric distribution of a perfect relativistic fluid accreting onto a (potentially spinning) black hole within a fully discrete spacetime setting. This problem has previously been studied extensively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Jonathan Gorard

We study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations in Schwarzschild spacetime. We first compare one-dimensional simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

In this chapter, I present a summary of observational tests of the basic picture of disk accretion. An emphasis is placed on tests relevant to black holes, but many of the fundamental results are drawn from studies of other classes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Thomas J. Maccarone

In this thesis, I study hydrodynamical models of slim accretion disks --- advective, optically thick disks which generalize the standard models of radiatively efficient thin disks to all accretion rates. I start with a general introduction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-02 A. Sadowski

An accretion flow is necessarily transonic around a black hole. However, around a neutron star it may or may not be transonic, depending on the inner disk boundary conditions influenced by the neutron star. I will discuss various transonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Transonicity in a spherically symmetric accreting system has been considered in both the stationary and the dynamic regimes. The stationary flow, set up as a dynamical system, has been shown to be greatly unstable to even the minutest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arnab K. Ray , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee