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We present a linear analysis of the stability of accretion disks in which angular momentum is removed by the magnetic torque exerted by a centrifugally driven wind. The effects of the dependence of the wind torque on field strength and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

We use a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a geometrically thin accretion disk to investigate the locality and detailed structure of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). The model disk has an aspect ratio $H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

Aims: We study the changes in the properties of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability in a shearing box, as the computational domain size in the radial direction is varied relative to the height Methods: We perform 3D…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Bodo , A. Mignone , F. Cattaneo , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari

Many astrophysical sources, e.g., cataclysmic variables, X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, exhibit a wind outflow, when they reveal a multicolor blackbody spectrum, hence harboring a geometrically thin Keplerian accretion disk. Unlike…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Nagendra Kumar , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The local properties of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in rotating, shearing flows are studied in the framework of a shearing-box model. Based on numerical simulations, we propose that the MRI-driven turbulence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 Justin Walker , Geoffroy Lesur , Stanislav Boldyrev

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fundamental mechanism determining the macroscopic dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks. In collisionless accretion flows around supermassive black holes, MRI-driven plasma turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Fabio Bacchini , Lev Arzamasskiy , Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

We describe local shearing box simulations of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a collisionless plasma. Collisionless effects may be important in radiatively inefficient accretion flows, such as near the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Prateek Sharma , Gregory W. Hammett , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

We study the behavior of magnetorotational turbulence in shearing box simulations with a radial and azimuthal extent up to ten scale heights. Maxwell and Reynolds stresses are found to increase by more than a factor two when increasing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin , Hubert Klahr

We perform 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of the fallback debris after a tidal disruption event. We focus on studying the effects of magnetic fields on the formation and early evolution of the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Maria Renee Meza , Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

The conventional accretion disk lore is that magnetized turbulence is the principal angular momentum transport process that drives accretion. However, when dynamically important large-scale magnetic fields thread an accretion disk, they can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Vikram Manikantan , Nicholas Kaaz , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Gibwa Musoke , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Large scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk is a key ingredient in the jet formation model. The most attractive scenario for the origin of such a large scale field is the advection of the field by the gas in the accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

We have investigated evolution of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks that have radially non-uniform magnetic field such that stable and unstable regions coexist initially, and found that a zone in which the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. T. Kato , K. Nakamura , R. Tandokoro , M. Fujimoto , S. Ida

After the initial stage of fast expanding of the hot Universe comes epoch of temperature fall and subsequent formation of dense clouds of hydrogen. Due to process of accretion some of this clouds became compact objects. Initially accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Zlatan Dimitrov Dimitrov

We study the stability of poloidal magnetic fields anchored in a thin accretion disc. The two-dimensional hydrodynamics in the disc plane is followed by a grid-based numerical simulation including the vertically integrated magnetic forces.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Stehle , H. C. Spruit

Global three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of turbulent accretion disks are presented which start from fully equilibrium initial conditions in which the magnetic forces are accounted for and the induction equation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. R. Parkin , G. V. Bicknell

We present a scaling law that predicts the values of the stresses obtained in numerical simulations of saturated MRI-driven turbulence in non-stratified shearing boxes. It relates the turbulent stresses to the strength of the vertical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin E. Pessah , Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis

The transport of angular momentum in the outward direction is the fundamental requirement for accretion to proceed in an accretion disc. This objective can be achieved if the accretion flow is turbulent. Instabilities are one of the sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-21 Mradul Sharma

Jets, from the protostellar to the AGN context, have been extensively studied but their connection to the turbulent dynamics of the underlying accretion disc is poorly understood. Following a similar approach to Lesur et al. (2013), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 A. Riols , G. I. Ogilvie , H. Latter , J. P. Ross

We study the two-dimensional, time-dependent MHD of radiation-driven winds from luminous accretion disks initially threaded by a purely axial magnetic field. The radiation force is mediated primarily by spectral lines. We use ideal MHD to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga

Chaotic flow is studied in a series of numerical magnetohydrodynamical simulations that use the shearing box formalism. This mimics important features of local accretion disk dynamics. The magnetorotational instability gives rise to flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. F. Winters , S. A. Balbus , J. F. Hawley