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Magnetically arrested disks (MADs) are a compelling model for explaining variability in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN), including horizon-scale outbursts like those observed in Sagittarius A*. MADs experience powerful flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Mitchell C. Begelman , Beverly Lowell , Matthew Liska , Jason Dexter , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Theoretical studies of transonic accretion onto black holes reveal a wide range of possible solutions, broadly classified into smooth flows and flows featuring shocks. Accretion solutions that involve the formation of shocks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Raj Kishor Joshi , Antonios Tsokaros , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Ramiz Aktar

Depending on the astrophysical source and its environment, the accretion flows can exhibit a variety of behaviors and characteristics in accordance with the type of solutions. We study low-angular-momentum accretion flows onto black holes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal , Yosuke Mizuno

In this paper, we report on three of the largest (in terms of simulation domain size) and longest (in terms of duration) 3D general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of super-critical accretion onto black holes. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 P. Chris Fragile , Matthew J. Middleton , Deepika A. Bollimpalli , Zach Smith

We present various instability mechanisms in the accreting black hole systems which might indicate at the connection between the accretion disk and jet. The jets observed in microquasars can have a persistent or blobby morphology.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Monika Moscibrodzka , Aneta Siemiginowska

Due to the non-axisymmetric potential of the central bar, barred spiral galaxies form, in addition to their characteristic arms and bar, a variety of structures within the thin gas disk, like nuclear rings, inner spirals and dust-lanes.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Manuel Jung , Tobias F. Illenseer , Wolfgang J. Duschl

This paper presents a series of global three dimensional accretion disk simulations carried out in the cylindrical limit in which the vertical component of the gravitational field is neglected. The simulations use a cylindrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Hawley

We report the results of 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a jet formation by the interaction between an accretion disk and a large scale magnetic field. The disk is not treated as a boundary condition but is solved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kigure , K. Shibata

We investigate aperiodic X-ray flux variability in accreting highly magnetized neutron stars - X-ray pulsars (XRPs). The X-ray variability is largely determined by mass accretion rate fluctuations at the NS surface, which replicate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Alexander A. Mushtukov , Galina V. Lipunova , Adam Ingram , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Juhani Mönkkönen , Michiel van der Klis

The conventional accretion disk lore is that magnetized turbulence is the principal angular momentum transport process that drives accretion. However, when dynamically important large-scale magnetic fields thread an accretion disk, they can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Vikram Manikantan , Nicholas Kaaz , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Gibwa Musoke , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Recent numerical simulations of MHD jets from accretion disks are briefly reviewed with emphasis on the scaling law for jet speed and the role of magnetic reconnection in relation to time variability in accretion disks, jets, and flares. On…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazunari Shibata , Seiichiro Aoki

When the accretion rate is more than a small fraction of Eddington, the inner regions of accretion disks around black holes are expected to be radiation-dominated. However, in the alpha-model, these regions are also expected to be thermally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Shigenobu Hirose , Julian H. Krolik , Omer Blaes

We study the global solutions of slowly rotating accretion flows around the supermassive black hole in the nucleus of an elliptical galaxy. The velocity of accreted gas surrounding the black hole is initially subsonic and then falls onto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Razieh Ranjbar , Amin Mosallanezhad , Shahram Abbassi

We investigate the launching mechanism of relativistic jets from black hole sources, in particular the strong winds from the surrounding accretion disk. Numerical investigations of the disk wind launching - the simulation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Qian Qian , Christian Fendt , Christos Vourellis

Astrophysical accretion is arguably the most prevalent physical process in the Universe; it occurs during the birth and death of individual stars and plays a pivotal role in the evolution of entire galaxies. Accretion onto a black hole, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-09 Peter B. Dobbie , Zdenka Kuncic , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raquel Salmeron

Flux ropes erupting from the vicinity of the black hole are thought to be a potential model for the flares observed in Sgr\,A$^*$. In this study, we examine the radiative properties of flux ropes that emerged from the vicinity of the black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-07 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Antonios Nathanail , Ziri Younsi , Christian M. Fromm

Accretion near black holes (BHs) is multidimensional, with turbulence, resistivity, thermal transport, and dust dynamics all playing essential roles. In cold accretion discs (ADs) or the region of an AD where magnetic fields (MFs) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Asish Jyoti Boruah , Liza Devi , Biplob Sarkar

In this work we have developed a new stochastic model for the fluctuations in lightcurves of accreting black holes. The model is based on a linear combination of stochastic processes and is also the solution to the linear diffusion equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Brandon C. Kelly , Malgorzata Sobolewska , Aneta Siemiginowska

Context. The accretion of magnetized plasma onto black holes is a complex and dynamic process, where the magnetic field plays a crucial role. The amount of magnetic flux accumulated near the event horizon significantly impacts the accretion…

We analyze the broadband photometric light curves of Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Sergeev et al. (2005) sample and find that a) perturbations propagating across the continuum emitting region are a general phenomenon securely detected in most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Doron Chelouche