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We present the first results of a global axisymmetric simulation of accretion onto rotating magnetized stars from a turbulent, MRI-driven disk. The angular momentum is transported outward by the magnetic stress of the turbulent flow with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marina M. Romanova , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Jetted astrophysical phenomena with black hole (BH) engines, including binary mergers, jetted tidal disruption events, and X-ray binaries, require a large-scale vertical magnetic field for efficient jet formation. However, a dynamo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , François Rincon , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Matthew Liska

Previous works suggested that the state transitions in an X-ray binary can be triggered by accreting inverse magnetic field from its companion star. A key point of this mechanism is the accretion and magnification of large-scale magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Shuang-Liang Li , Zhen Yan

We investigate the viability of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in accretion disks around both solar-type stars and very low mass stars. In particular, we determine the disk regions where the MRI can be shut off either by Ohmic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Subhanjoy Mohanty , Barbara Ercolano , Neal J. Turner

We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism for transportation of angular momentum and dissipation of energy within hot, ionized accretion discs. This instability is produced through the interactions of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Oscar M. Pimentel , P. Chris Fragile , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Bridget Ierace , Deepika Bollimpalli

We examine whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can serve as a mechanism of angular momentum transport in circumplanetary disks. For the MRI to operate the ionization degree must be sufficiently high and the magnetic pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuri I. Fujii , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In this paper, we have investigated the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars, which are rapidly rotating neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries. These systems show coherent X-ray pulsations that arise when the accretion flow is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-18 D. B Zeleke , S. B. Tessema , S. H. Negu

In accretion disks with large-scale ordered magnetic fields, the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is marginally suppressed, so other processes may drive angular momentum transport leading to accretion. Accretion could then be driven by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Megan D. Marshall , Mark J. Avara , Jonathan C. McKinney

We develop a two-flow model of accretion onto a black hole which incorporates the effect of the local magneto-rotational instability. The flow consists of an accretion disk and an accreting corona, and the local dynamo affects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Janiuk , B. Czerny

We present a set of three-dimensional, global, general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin, radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disks surrounding a non-rotating, stellar-mass black hole. The simulations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Bhupendra Mishra , P. Chris Fragile , Jessica Anderson , Aidan Blankenship , Hui Li , Krzysztof Nalewajko

A new type of instability that is expected to drive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence from a purely toroidal magnetic field in an accretion disk is presented. It is already known that in a differentially rotating system, the uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Kota Hirabayashi , Masahiro Hoshino

We suggest a model of the advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) with magnetically driven outflows to explain hysteretic state transition observed in X-ray binaries (XRBs). The transition from a thin disk to an ADAF occurs when the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Xinwu Cao

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) with a non-zero Ohmic resistivity. The properties of the saturated state depend on the initial magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Timothy P. Fleming , James M. Stone , John F. Hawley

The magnetohydrodynamical behavior (MHD) of accretion disks is reviewed. A detailed presentation of the fundamental MHD equations appropriate for protostellar disks is given. The combination of a weak (subthermal) magnetic field and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-05 Steven A. Balbus

Short-period super-Earth-sized planets are common. Explaining how they form near their present orbits requires understanding the structure of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs. Previous studies have argued that the hot inner…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-02 Marija R. Jankovic , James E. Owen , Subhanjoy Mohanty , Jonathan C. Tan

[abridged] We present a 1+1D global magnetically-driven disk accretion model that captures the essence of the MRI-driven accretion, without resorting to 3D global non-ideal MHD simulations. The gas dynamics is assumed to be solely…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Timmy N. Delage , Satoshi Okuzumi , Mario Flock , Paola Pinilla , Natalia Dzyurkevich

Dwarf Novae and low-mass X-ray binaries are eruptive binary systems comprised of a Roche-lobe overflowing solar-type star and an accreting compact object. Their recurrence time can be explained by a low-accreting phase, the quiescence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Marc Van den Bossche , Geoffroy Lesur , Guillaume Dubus

In Keplerian accretion disks, turbulence and magnetic fields may be jointly excited through a subcritical dynamo process involving the magnetorotational instability (MRI). High-resolution simulations exhibit a tendency towards statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Riols , F. Rincon , C. Cossu , G. Lesur , G. I. Ogilvie , P-Y. Longaretti

Aims and Methods. Accretion bursts triggered by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the innermost disk regions were studied for protoplanetary gas-dust disks formed from prestellar cores of various mass $M_{\rm core}$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Eduard Vorobyov , Sergey Khaibrakhmanov , Shantanu Basu , Marc Audard