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With the forthcoming VLBI images of Sgr A* and M87, simulations of accretion flows onto black holes acquire a special importance to aid with the interpretation of the observations and to test the predictions of different accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Hector Olivares , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno

Simulating black hole (BH) accretion and feedback from the horizon to galactic scales is extremely challenging, as it involves a vast range of scales. Recently, our multizone method has successfully achieved global dynamical steady-states…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Ramesh Narayan , Kung-Yi Su , Priyamvada Natarajan

The gravitational decoupling method systematically generates hairy modifications to the solutions in general relativity due to new gravitational sources. In view of the recent advances in astronomical observations, these hairy solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Zhen Li , Xiao-Kan Guo

A recent approach to simulating localized feedback from active galactic nuclei by Power et al. (2011) uses an accretion disc particle to represent both the black hole and its accretion disc. We have extrapolated and adapted this approach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 James Wurster , Rob J. Thacker

Solving the continuum radiative transfer equation in high opacity media requires sophisticated numerical tools. In order to test the reliability of such tools, we present a benchmark of radiative transfer codes in a 2D disc configuration.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Pinte , T. J. Harries , M. Min , A. M. Watson , C. P. Dullemond , P. Woitke , F. Menard , M. C. Duran-Rojas

We present results from modeling of quasi-simultaneous broad band (radio through X-ray) observations of the galactic stellar black hole (BH) transient X-ray binary (XRB) systems XTE J1118+480 and GX 339-4 using an irradiated disc + compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Maitra , S. Markoff , C. Brocksopp , M. Noble , M. Nowak , J. Wilms

Heterogeneous embedded systems on chip (HESoCs) co-integrate a standard host processor with programmable manycore accelerators (PMCAs) to combine general-purpose computing with domain-specific, efficient processing capabilities. While…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Andreas Kurth , Pirmin Vogel , Alessandro Capotondi , Andrea Marongiu , Luca Benini

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

We report on simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks onto black hole binaries. We vary the binary mass ratio from 1:1 to 1:10 and evolve the systems when they orbit near the binary-disk decoupling radius. We compare (surface)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro , Harald P. Pfeiffer

The study of the physics of accretion discs developed around the supermassive black hole (BH) candidates are essential theoretical tools to test their nature. Here, we study the accretion flow and associated emission using generalised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 C. Millauro , C. R. Argüelles , F. L. Vieyro , V. Crespi , M. F. Mestre

We study the gas accretion onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH) using the 3D SPH code GADGET-3 on scales of 0.1-200 pc. First we test our code with spherically symmetric, adiabatic Bondi accretion problem. We find that our simulation can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-12 Kentaro Nagamine , Paramita Barai , Daniel Proga

The role of radiation in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion simulations is discussed through axisymmetric simulations of the evolution of an initial torus seeded with a weak magnetic field. The paper compares and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-07 Jean-Pierre De Villiers

We present a general relativistic, ray-tracing radiative transfer code RAIKOU for multi-wavlength studies of spectra and images including the black hole shadows around Kerr black holes. Important radiative processes in hot plasmas around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

Black hole accretion is one of nature's most efficient energy extraction processes. When gas falls in, a significant fraction of its gravitational binding energy is either converted into radiation or flows outwards in the form of black…

We present the open-source radiative transfer code named HELIOS, which is constructed for studying exoplanetary atmospheres. In its initial version, the model atmospheres of HELIOS are one-dimensional and plane-parallel, and the equation of…

Accretion disks around black holes radiate a significant fraction of the rest mass of the accreting material in the form of thermal radiation from within a few gravitational radii of the black hole ($ r \lesssim 20 G M / c^{2}$). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-13 Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, an Earth-size sub-millimetre radio interferometer, recently captured the first images of the central supermassive black hole in M87. These images were interpreted as gravitationally-lensed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Hector Olivares , Luciano Rezzolla

The accretion of hot, dense matter which consists of heavy nuclei, free nucleons, degenerated electrons, photons and neutrinos is studied. The composition of free nucleons and their chemical potentials are provided through the equation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Yokosawa , S. Uematsu , J. Abe

In this work, we expand and test the capabilities of our recently developed super-resolution (SR) model to generate high-resolution (HR) realizations of the full phase-space matter distribution, including both displacement and velocity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Yueying Ni , Yin Li , Patrick Lachance , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Simeon Bird , Yu Feng

Context. The Bondi spherical accretion solution has been used to model accretion onto compact objects in a variety of situations, from interpretation of observations to subgrid models in cosmological simulations. Aims. We aim to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Razieh Ranjbar , Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez