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Supermassive black hole binaries are likely to accrete interstellar gas through a circumbinary disk. Shortly before merger, the inner portions of this circumbinary disk are subject to general relativistic effects. To study this regime, we…

When an accretion disk surrounds a binary rotating in the same sense, the binary exerts strong torques on the gas. Analytic work in the 1D approximation indicated that these torques sharply diminish or even eliminate accretion from the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Ji-Ming Shi , Julian H. Krolik

We consider misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events occurring when a star encounters a supermassive rotating black hole. We use the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the disc shape when the stream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 P. B. Ivanov , V. V. Zhuravlev , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Numerical studies of gas accretion onto supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) have generally been limited to conditions where the circumbinary disk (CBD) is 10-100 times thicker than expected for disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-09 Christopher Tiede , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

We present an analytical and numerical study of a system composed of a stellar binary pair and a massless, locally isothermal viscous accretion disk that is coplanar to the binary orbital plane. Analytically, we study the effect of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams , Michal Pirog

While supermassive binary black holes inspiral toward merger they may also experience significant accretion of matter from a surrounding disk. We study the dynamics of this system, simultaneously describing the evolving spacetime and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Mark J. Avara , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Scott C. Noble , Dennis Bowen , Taeho Ryu

Using numerical hydrodynamics calculations and a novel method for densely sampling parameter space, we measure the accretion and torque on a binary system from a circumbinary disk. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the net…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 Paul C. Duffell , Daniel D'Orazio , Andrea Derdzinski , Zoltan Haiman , Andrew MacFadyen , Anna L. Rosen , Jonathan Zrake

If a Kerr black hole is connected to a disk rotating around it by a magnetic field, the rotational energy of the Kerr black hole provides an energy source for the radiation of the disk in addition to disk accretion. The black hole exerts a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li

We study the evolution of a massive black hole pair in a rotationally supported nuclear disc. The distributions of stars and gas mimic the nuclear region of a gas-rich galaxy merger remnant. Using high-resolution SPH simulations, we follow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-24 M. Dotti , M. Colpi , F. Haardt , L. Mayer

The interaction of a massive binary and a non-self-gravitating circumbinary accretion disc is considered. The shape of the stationary twisted disc produced by the binary is calculated. It is shown that the inner part of the disc must lie in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou , A. G. Polnarev

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

We consider the inner regions of accretion disks surrounding black holes and neutron stars and investigate the nonlinear time dependent evolution of thermal-viscous instabilities. The viscous stress is assumed to be proportional to the gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Xingming Chen , Ronald E. Taam

Accretion disks around black holes in which the shear stress is proportional to the total pressure, the accretion rate is more than a small fraction of Eddington, and the matter is distributed smoothly are both thermally and viscously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. H. Krolik

As 2 black holes bound to each other in a close binary approach merger their inspiral time becomes shorter than the characteristic inflow time of surrounding orbiting matter. Using an innovative technique in which we represent the changing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Scott C. Noble , Bruno C. Mundim , Hiroyuki Nakano , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Yosef Zlochower , Nicolás Yunes

We study accretion processes for tidally disrupted stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that there…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

We show that viscous, transonic accretion disks which start with sub-Keplerian angular momentum at the outer boundary reproduce the features of the so-called thick, thin, slim and other accretion disk models depending upon the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We carry out 2D viscous hydrodynamics simulations of circumbinary disk (CBD) accretion using {\footnotesize AREPO}. We resolve the accretion flow from a large-scale CBD down to the streamers and disks around individual binary components.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Diego Muñoz , Dong Lai , Kaitlin Kratter , Ryan Miranda

(abbreviated) In this paper we derive equations describing dynamics and stationary configurations of a twisted fully relativistic thin accretion disc around a slowly rotating black hole. We find that the disc dynamics and stationary shapes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Zhuravlev , P. Ivanov

Accretion disks in binary systems can experience hydrodynamic impact at inner as well as outer edges. The first case is typical for protoplanetary disks around young T Tau stars. The second one is typical for circumstellar disks in close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo

The standard thin accretion disc model predicts that discs around stellar mass black holes become radiation pressure dominated and thermally unstable once their luminosity exceeds L>0.02 L_Edd. Observationally, discs in the high/soft state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Yucong Zhu , Ramesh Narayan