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We study the flow structure in 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion onto Sagittarius A* via the magnetized winds of the orbiting Wolf-Rayet stars. These simulations cover over 3 orders of magnitude in radius to reach…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

We present the detailed global structure of black hole accretion flows and outflows through newly performed two-dimensional radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By starting from a torus threaded with weak toroidal magnetic fields and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ken Ohsuga , Shin Mineshige

Wind-fed models offer a unique way to form predictive models of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A*. We present 3D, wind-fed MHD and GRMHD simulations spanning the entire dynamic range of accretion from parsec scales to the event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Sean M. Ressler , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert

The so-called S2 star reached its closest approach to the massive black hole (BH) at around 1500 $R_\mathrm{s}$ in May 2018. It has been proposed that the interaction of its stellar wind with the high-density accretion flow at this distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 M. Schartmann , A. Burkert , A. Ballone

We perform 1D/2D/3D relativistic hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows with low angular momentum, filling the gap between spherically symmetric Bondi accretion and disc-like accretion flows. Scenarios with different directional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-07 Petra Suková , Szymon Charzyński , Agnieszka Janiuk

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

The gas cloud G2 falling toward Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is supposed to provide valuable information on the physics of accretion flows and the environment of the black hole. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-22 J. -H. Park , S. Trippe , T. P. Krichbaum , J. -Y. Kim , M. Kino , A. Bertarini , M. Bremer , P. de Vicente

A pair of giant gamma-ray bubbles have been revealed by the {\it Fermi} LAT. In this paper we investigate their formation mechanism. Observations have indicated that the activity of the supermassive black hole located at the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Guobin Mou , Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Mouyuan Sun , Meng Su

As the luminosity of an accreting black hole drops to a few percent of Eddington, the spectrum switches from the familiar soft state to a hard state that is well-described by a distended and tenuous advection-dominated accretion flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

The super-massive 4 million solar mass black hole Sagittarius~A* (SgrA*) shows flare emission from the millimeter to the X-ray domain. A detailed analysis of the infrared light curves allows us to address the accretion phenomenon in a…

We propose a scenario in which a large fraction, or even most, of the gas cooling to low temperatures of T<10^4 K in cooling flow clusters, directly gains energy from the central black hole. Most of the cool gas is accelerated to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Noam Soker , Fabio Pizzolato

Supermassive black holes in galaxies spend majority of their lifetime in the low-luminosity regime, powered by hot accretion flow. Strong winds launched from the hot accretion flow have the potential to play an important role in active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Fangzheng Shi , Feng Yuan , Zhiyuan Li , Zhao Su , Suoqing Ji

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) observed the Galactic centre source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) and used emission models primarily based on single ion temperature (1T) general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 León Salas , Matthew Liska , Sera Markoff , Koushik Chatterjee , Gibwa Musoke , Oliver Porth , Bart Ripperda , Doosoo Yoon , Wanga Mulaudzi

We present 3D, adaptive mesh refinement simulations of G2, a cloud of gas moving in a highly eccentric orbit towards the galactic center. We assume that G2 originates from a stellar wind interacting with the environment of the Sgr A* black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fabio De Colle , A. C. Raga , Flavio F. Contreras-Torres , Juan C. Toledo-Roy

The low-luminosity black hole Sgr A* provides a testbed for models of Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows (RIAFs). Recent sub-millimeter linear polarization measurements of Sgr A* have provided evidence that the electrons in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Ballantyne , F. Ozel , D. Psaltis

The density profile of the ambient medium around a supermassive black hole plays an important role in understanding the inflow-outflow mechanisms in the Galactic Centre. We constrain the spherical density profile using the stellar bow shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Elaheh Hosseini , Michal Zajaček , Andreas Eckart , Nadeen B. Sabha , Lucas Labadie

We present axisymmetric two-temperature general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) simulations of the inner region of the accretion flow onto the supermassive black hole M87. We address uncertainties from previous modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-22 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

Radiatively inefficient accretion flow models have been shown to accurately account for the spectrum and luminosity observed from Sgr A* in the X-ray regime down to mm wavelengths. However, observations at a few GHz cannot be explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Ian Christie , Maria Petropoulou , Petar Mimica , Dimitrios Giannios

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a compact radio source at the Galactic center. Observations have confirmed that its mass is approximately (4.1)*10$^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, and Sgr A* is generally believed to be powered by gas accretion onto a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Shenyue Yin , Siming Liu

We investigate two-temperature accretion flows onto strongly magnetized compact stars. Matter is accreted in the form of an accretion disc upto the disc radius ($r_{\rm d}$), where, the magnetic pressure exceeds both the gas and ram…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Shilpa Sarkar , Kuldeep Singh , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Philippe Laurent