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We present results of the first global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks fed by Roche lobe overflow, including vertical stratification, in order to investigate the roles of spiral shocks, magnetorotational instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-08 Patryk Pjanka , James M. Stone

We study global transonic solution for a relativistic, magnetized, viscous advective accretion flow around a rotating black hole, incorporating the effects of mass and angular momentum loss through winds. Our model considers dominant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Camelia Jana , Santabrata Das

(abriged) MRI turbulence is a leading mechanism for the generation of an efficient turbulent transport of angular momentum in an accretion disk through a turbulent viscosity effect. It is believed that the same process could also transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 G. Lesur , P-Y. Longaretti

We want to test if self-similar magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) accretion-ejection models can explain the observational results for accretion disk winds in BHBs. In our models, the density at the base of the outflow, from the accretion disk, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 S. Chakravorty , P-O. Petrucci , J. Ferreira , G. Henri , R. Belmont , M. Clavel , S. Corbel , J. Rodriguez , M. Coriat , S. Drappeau , J. Malzac

We investigate the long-term evolution of black hole accretion disks formed in neutron star mergers. These disks expel matter that contributes to an $r$-process kilonova, and can produce relativistic jets powering short gamma-ray bursts.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Rodrigo Fernández , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Francois Foucart , Daniel Kasen

Worldwide very long baseline radio interferometry arrays are expected to obtain horizon-scale images of supermassive black hole candidates as well as of relativistic jets in several nearby active galactic nuclei. This motivates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Hector Olivares , Oliver Porth , Jordy Davelaar , Elias R. Most , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla

Black holes accreting well below the Eddington rate are believed to have geometrically thick, optically thin, rotationally supported accretion discs in which the Coulomb mean free path is large compared to $GM/c^2$. In such an environment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Francois Foucart , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

Dwarf novae (DNe) and X-ray binaries exhibit outbursts thought to be due to a thermal-viscous instability in the accretion disk. The disk instability model (DIM) assumes that accretion is driven by turbulent transport, customarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Nicolas Scepi , Guillaume Dubus , Geoffroy Lesur

Numerical MHD codes have become extraordinarily powerful tools with which to study accretion turbulence. They have been used primarily to extract values for the classical $\alpha$ parameter, and to follow complex evolutionary development.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Balbus

Spinning supermassive black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) magnetically launch relativistic collimated outflows, or jets. Without angular momentum supply, such jets are thought to perish within $3$ orders of magnitude in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Haocheng Zhang

We present numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a magnetized accretion disk launching trans-Alfvenic jets. These simulations, performed in a 2.5 dimensional time-dependent polytropic resistive MHD framework, model a resistive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabien Casse , Rony Keppens

We present the results of axisymmetric, time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows around black holes. The calculations begin from a rotationally supported thick torus which contains a weak poloidal field. Accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James M. Stone , James E. Pringle

(Abridged) We study the dynamical evolution of a stationary, axisymmetric, and perfectly conducting cold accretion disk containing a large-scale magnetic field around a Kerr black hole, trying to understand the relation between accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

We study the launching of magnetized jets from a resistive circumstellar disk within a binary system, employing a unique combination of 3D MHD jet launching simulations (PLUTO code) and post-processed 3D radiative transfer modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Christian Fendt , Sareh Ataiee

We present results of numerical simulation of inviscid thick accretion disks and wind flows around black holes. We use Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique for this purpose. Formation of thick disks are found to be preceded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Diego Molteni , G. Lanzafame , S. K. Chakrabarti

The 2D time dependent solution of thin accretion disk in a close binary system have been presented on the equatorial plane around the Schwarzschild black hole. To do that, the special part of the General Relativistic Hydrodynamical(GRH)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez

In this study, we investigate the effect of resistivity on the dynamics of global magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows (Res-MHD) around a spinning supermassive black hole. We perform a comparative study of 2D and 3D resistive models around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

Previous MHD simulations have shown that wind must exist in black hole hot accretion flows. In this paper, we continue our study by investigating the detailed properties of wind, such as mass flux and poloidal speed, and the mechanism of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Feng Yuan , Zhaoming Gan , Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski , Defu Bu , Xue-Ning Bai

We present global 3D radiation magnetohydrodynamical simulations of accretion onto a 6.62 solar mass black hole with quasi-steady state accretion rates reaching 0.016 to 0.9 times the critical accretion rate, which is defined as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Jiahui Huang , Yan-Fei Jiang , Hua Feng , Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Matthew J. Middleton

We present results of models of the physical space and parameters of the accretion disk of Sagittarius A*, as well as simulations of its emergent spectrum. This begins with HARM, a 2D general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-18 Guy Hilburn , Edison Liang , Siming Liu , Hui Li