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The massive black hole in our galactic center, Sgr A*, accretes only a small fraction of the gas available at its Bondi radius. The physical processes determining this accretion rate remain unknown, partly due to a lack of observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Michael McCourt , Ann-Marie Madigan

We investigate misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events that occur when a star encounters a supermassive black hole. We employ the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the shape of a disc for which the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Xiang-Gruess , P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Observational evidence and many numerical simulations show the existence of wind (i.e., uncollimated outflow) in accretion systems of the elliptical galaxy center. One of the primary aims of this study is to investigate the solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-23 Razieh Ranjbar , Shahram Abbassi

Standard accretion disk theory is formulated which is based on the local heat balance. The energy produced by a turbulent viscous heating is supposed to be emitted to the sides of the disc. Sources of turbulence in the accretion disc are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

General relativistic, axisymmetric flow of low angular momentum accretion around a Kerr black hole can have certain geometric configuration where the flow is maintained in hydrostatic equilibrium along the vertical direction (direction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Pratik Tarafdar , Susovan Maity , Tapas K. Das

We present a numerical study of the global modes of oscillation of thick accretion discs around black holes. We have previously studied the case of constant distributions of specific angular momentum. In this second paper, we investigate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eduardo Rubio-Herrera , William H. Lee

Simulations suggest that turbulence is ubiquitous in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), though the source and properties of CGM turbulence is uncertain. Using analytic considerations and hydrodynamic simulations we study how CGM turbulence is…

The morphology of adiabatic accretion flows with small non-zero specific angular momentum has been investigated in the axisymmetric and nonviscous limit. For an initial state characterized by a Bondi flow with the specific angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xingming Chen , Ronald E. Taam , Marek A. Abramowicz , Igor V. Igumenshchev

(shortened) We perform 3D hydrodynamic simulations of gas flowing around a planetary core of mass \mplan=10\me embedded in a near Keplerian background flow, using a modified shearing box approximation. We employ a nested grid hydrodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Andrew F. Nelson , Maximilian Ruffert

Viscous Keplerian discs become sub-Keplerian close to a black hole since they pass through sonic points before entering into it. We study the time evolution of polytropic viscous accretion discs (both in one and two dimensional flows) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Giuseppe Lanzafame , D. Molteni , S. K. Chakrabarti

We show that for supergiants, net angular momentum is not a necessary condition for forming accretion discs during core-collapse. Even absent net rotation, convective motions in the outer parts of supergiants generate mean horizontal flows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Eliot Quataert , Daniel Lecoanet , Eric R. Coughlin

At low densities, when radiation of an accreting gas is dynamically unimportant, quasi-spherical non-radiative accretion flow is formed around a compact object. We show that the density of the flow is n\propto r^{-1/2}. The gas compression…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Gruzinov

Characterizing rotation, infall and accretion disks around high-mass protostars is an important topic in massive star formation research. With the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Very Large Array we studied a massive disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Beuther , A. Walsh

A self-similar solution for time evolution of quasi-spherical, self-gravitating accretion flows is obtained under the assumption that the generated heat by viscosity is retained in the flow. The solutions are parameterized by the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohsen Shadmehri

The accretion process onto spinning objects in Kerr spacetimes is studied with numerical simulations. Our results show that accretion onto compact objects with Kerr parameter (characterizing the spin) $|a| < M$ and $|a| > M$ is very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-18 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese , Tomohiro Harada , Rohta Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

Mass loss appears to be a common phenomenon among disk-accreting astrophysical systems. An outflow emanating from an accretion disk can act as a sink for mass, angular momentum and energy and can therefore alter the dissipation rates and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Knigge

We report on next phase of our study of rotating accretion flows onto black holes. We consider hydrodynamical (HD) accretion flows with a spherically symmetric density distribution at the outer boundary but with spherical symmetry broken by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga

The processes are investigated by which gas loses its angular momentum during the protogalactic collapse phase, leading to disk galaxies that are too compact with respect to the observations. High-resolution N-body/SPH simulations in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. D'Onghia , A. Burkert , G. Murante , S. Khochfar

Turbulent transport of angular momentum is a necessary process to explain accretion in astrophysical disks. Although the hydrodynamic stability of disk-like flows has been tested in experiments, results are contradictory and suggest either…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-23 Marc Avila

We present time-dependent simulations of a two-phase accretion flow around a black hole. The accretion flow initially is composed of an optically thick and cool disc close to the midplane, while on top and below the disc there is a hot and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Mayer , J. E. Pringle