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Recent observations of Sgr A$^*$ by Fermi and HESS have detected steady gamma-ray emission in the GeV and TeV bands. We present a new model to explain the GeV gamma-ray emission by inverse Compton scattering by nonthermal electrons supplied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara

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

When a black hole accretes plasmas at very low accretion rate, an advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) is formed. In an ADAF, relativistic electrons emit soft gamma-rays via Bremsstrahlung. Some MeV photons collide with each other to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani

Sagittarius A* is a compact radio source at the Galactic center, powered by accretion of fully ionized plasmas into a supermassive black hole. However, the radio emission cannot be produced through the thermal synchrotron process by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-02 Kyle W. Martin , Siming Liu , Chris Fragile , Cong Yu , Chris L. Fryer

We have developed an improved model of X-ray emission from optically thin, two-temperature accretion flows, \texttt{kerrflow}, using an exact Monte Carlo treatment of global Comptonization as well as with a fully general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Andrzej Niedźwiecki , Michał Szanecki , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Fu-Guo Xie

Viscous rotating accretion flows around black holes become advection-dominated when the accretion rate $\dot M$ is sufficiently low. Most of the accretion energy in such flows is stored within the gas and advected radially inward. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi , Rohan Mahadevan

Radiatively inefficient, hot accretion flows are widely considered as a relevant accretion mode in low-luminosity AGNs. We study spectral formation in such flows using a refined model with a fully general relativistic description of both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-07 Andrzej Niedzwiecki , Fu-Guo Xie , Agnieszka Stepnik

We have developed a model for the variability of gamma ray emission in jets of active galactic nuclei in which the variability arises as a result of photon-photon pair production interactions with X-rays emitted by a hot spot in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Bednarek , R. J. Protheroe

Both types of long and short gamma ray bursts involve a stage of a hyper-Eddington accretion of hot and dense plasma torus onto a newly born black hole. The prompt gamma ray emission originates in jets at some distance from this 'central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Ye-Fei Yuan , Rosalba Perna , Tiziana Di Matteo

We perform two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of slowly rotating accretion flows in the region of $ 0.01-7\, \mathrm{pc} $ around a supermassive black holes with $ M_\mathrm{BH} = 10^{8} M_{\odot} $. The accretion flow is irradiated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Amin Mosallanezhad , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Fatemeh Zahra Zeraatgari , De-Fu Bu

We study the evolution of binary systems of Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and compute their optical emission assuming accretion onto a black hole via a non standard, advection-dominated slim disc with an outflow. We consider systems with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-14 Elena Ambrosi , Luca Zampieri

The bulk of the X-ray emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is produced very close to the accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH), in a corona of hot electrons which up scatters optical and ultraviolet photons from the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 C. Ricci , L. C. Ho , A. C. Fabian , B. Trakhtenbrot , M. J. Koss , Y. Ueda , A. Lohfink , T. Shimizu , F. E. Bauer , R. Mushotzky , K. Schawinski , S. Paltani , I. Lamperti , E. Treister , K. Oh

The detection of gamma-ray emission from accreting pulsars in X-ray binaries (XRBs) has long been sought after. For some high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), marginal detections have recently been reported. Regardless of whether these will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 L. Ducci , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , A. Santangelo

We investigate the observed correlation between the 2--10 keV X-ray luminosity (in unit of the Eddington luminosity; $l_X \equiv L_X/L_{Edd}$) and the photon index ($\Gamma$) of the X-ray spectrum for both black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Qi-Xiang Yang , Fu-Guo Xie , Feng Yuan , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Marek Gierlinski , Luis C. Ho , Zhaolong Yu

We investigate the variation of the gas and the radiation pressure in accretion disks during the infall of matter to the black hole and its effect to the flow. While the flow far away from the black hole might be non-relativistic, in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Parikshit Dutta

(Abridged) We present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of slowly rotating gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole and is irradiated by a thin UV accretion disc and a spherical X-ray corona. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga

The recent detection of a gamma-ray flux from the direction of the Galactic center by EGRET on the Compton GRO raises the question of whether this is a point source (possibly coincident with the massive black hole candidate Sgr A*) or a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Markoff , F. Melia , I. Sarcevic

Images from the vicinity of the black hole horizon at the Galactic centre (Sgr A*) could be obtained in the near future with a Very Large Baseline Array of sub-millimetre telescopes. The recently observed short-term infrared and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb

Non-thermal magnetospheric processes in the vicinity of supermassive black holes have attracted particular attention in recent times. Gap-type particle acceleration accompanied by curvature and Inverse Compton radiation could in principle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-18 Frank M. Rieger , Grigorios Katsoulakos

X-ray continuum spectra of super-Eddington accretion flow are studied by means of Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations based on the radiation hydrodynamic simulation data, in which both of thermal and bulk Compton scatterings are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Takaaki Kitaki , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima