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We discuss the solution of accretion disk when the black hole is chosen to be rotating. We study, how the fluid properties get affected for different rotation parameters of the black hole. We know that no cosmic object is static in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87* and Sgr A*, the accretion disk around the central supermassive black hole is tenuous and collisionless. As a result, the usual ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation may not be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 John M. Mehlhaff , Alexander Y. Chen , Martin Luepker , Yajie Yuan

We consider an extreme case of disc accretion onto a gravitating centre when the viscosity in the disc is negligible. The angular momentum and the rotational energy of the accreted matter is carried out by a magnetized wind outflowing from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Sergei Bogovalov , Stanislav Kelner

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

In standard accretion discs, outward angular momentum transfer by viscous forces is compensated by the inward motion of the accreting matter. However, the vertical structure of real accretion discs leads to meridional circulation with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Pavel Abolmasov

We study the angular momentum profiles both for dark matter and for gas within virialized halos, using a statistical sample of halos drawn from cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. Three simulations have been analyzed, one is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. Chen , Y. P. Jing , Kohji Yoshikawa

A tidal disruption event (TDE) takes place when a star passes near enough to a massive black hole to be disrupted. About half the star's matter is given elliptical trajectories with large apocenter distances, the other half is unbound. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-08 Tsvi Piran , Gilad Svirski , Julian Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Hotaka Shiokawa

We use cosmological SPH simulations to study the kinematic signatures of cool gas accretion onto a pair of well-resolved galaxy halos. Cold-flow streams and gas-rich mergers produce a circum-galactic component of cool gas that generally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-30 Kyle R. Stewart , Tobias Kaufmann , James S. Bullock , Elizabeth J. Barton , Ariyeh H. Maller , Jürg Diemand , James Wadsley

We analyze three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a nonradiative accretion flow around a black hole using a pseudo-Newtonian potential. The flow originates from a torus initially centered at 100 gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John F. Hawley , Steven A. Balbus

We use high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to study the angular momentum acquisition of gaseous halos around Milky Way sized galaxies. We find that cold mode accreted gas enters a galaxy halo with ~70% more specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-29 Kyle R. Stewart , Alyson M. Brooks , James S. Bullock , Ariyeh H. Maller , Juerg Diemand , James Wadsley , Leonidas A. Moustakas

A new computational scheme is developed to study gas accretion from a circumbinary disk. The scheme decomposes the gas velocity into two components one of which denotes the Keplerian rotation and the other of which does the deviation from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Yasuhiro Ochi , Koichi Ando

Gas falling quasi-spherically onto a black hole forms an inner accretion disc if its specific angular momentum $l$ exceeds $\lmin\sim r_gc$ where $r_g$ is the Schwarzschild radius. The standard disc model assumes $l\gg\lmin$. We argue that,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrei M. Beloborodov , Andrei F. Illarionov

Keplerian accretion discs around massive black holes (MBHs) are gravitationally unstable beyond a few hundredths of parsec and should collapse to form stars. Indeed an accretion/star formation episode took place a few millions years ago in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Suzy Collin , Jean-Paul Zahn

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow is a long standing puzzle. Resolving it is especially important in astrophysics when the flow angular momentum profile is Keplerian which forms an accretion disk having negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Kanak Saha

Recently, gas giant planets in nearly circular orbits with large semimajor axes ($a \sim$ 30--1000AU) have been detected by direct imaging. We have investigated orbital evolution in a formation scenario for such planets, based on core…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Kikuchi , A. Higuchi , S. Ida

In low-mass disks, turbulent torques are probably the most important way of redistributing angular momentum. Here we present the theory of turbulent accretion disks. We show the molecular viscosity is far too small to account for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Caroline E. J. M. L. J. Terquem

The slow rotation of some young stars and the extreme rotation periods of some Ap stars have so far defied explanation. The absence of sufficiently efficient braking mechanisms for newly formed stars points to the star formation process…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 H. C. Spruit

Observations of X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies suggest that the accretion rate onto the central supermassive black hole can reach a substantial fraction of the Bondi rate. However, classical accretion theory applicable to such hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Cheng-Liang Jiao , Liying Zhu , Er-gang Zhao , Xiang-dong Shi

In certain scenarios, the accreted angular momentum of plasma onto a black hole could be low; however, how the accretion dynamics depend on the angular momentum content of the plasma is still not fully understood. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

The first spherical accretion model was developed 55 years ago, but the theory is yet far from being complete. The real accretion flow was found to be time-dependent and turbulent. This paper presents the minimal MHD spherical accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman V. Shcherbakov