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We present the results of 2D hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary disk accretion using the finite-volume code DISCO. This code solves the 2D viscous Navier-Stokes equations on a high-resolution moving mesh which shears with the fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Brian D. Farris , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

We present the results of a calculation of the thermal spectrum from a 2D, moving mesh, high-accuracy, viscous hydrodynamical simulation of an accreting supermassive black hole binary. We include viscous heating, shock heating, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Brian D. Farris , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting, equal-mass binary black holes in full general relativity focusing on the impact of black hole spin on the dynamical formation and evolution of minidisks. We find that during the late…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-13 Vasileios Paschalidis , Jane Bright , Milton Ruiz , Roman Gold

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

We present fully relativistic predictions for the electromagnetic emission produced by accretion disks surrounding spinning and nonspinning supermassive binary black holes on the verge of merging. We use the code Bothros to post-process…

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting, equal-mass binary black holes in full general relativity focusing on the effect of spin and minidisks on the accretion rate and Poynting luminosity variability. We report on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Jane C. Bright , Vasileios Paschalidis

We perform a full 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulation of an equal-mass, spinning, binary black hole approaching merger, surrounded by a circumbinary disk and with mini-disks around each black hole. For this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Luciano Combi , Federico G. Lopez Armengol , Manuela Campanelli , Scott C. Noble , Mark Avara , Julian H. Krolik , Dennis Bowen

We study the hydrodynamical evolution of massive accretion disks around black holes, formed when a neutron star is disrupted by a black hole in a binary system. Initial conditions are taken from 3D calculations of coalescing binaries.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We demonstrate that gas disks around binary systems might deliver gas to the binary components only when the circumbinary disk is relatively warm. We present new grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, performed with the binary on the grid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Christopher Tiede , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

While supermassive binary black holes inspiral toward merger they may also experience significant accretion of matter from a surrounding disk. We study the dynamics of this system, simultaneously describing the evolving spacetime and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Mark J. Avara , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Scott C. Noble , Dennis Bowen , Taeho Ryu

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 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

Accretion onto black holes in wind-fed binaries and in collapsars forms small rotating discs with peculiar properties. Such ``mini-discs'' accrete on the free-fall time without help of viscosity and nevertheless can have a high radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Ivan Zalamea , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Hierarchical structure formation inevitably leads to the formation of supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) with a sub-parsec separation in galactic nuclei. However, to date there has been no unambiguous detection of such systems. In an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Luis C. Ho

Gaseous circumbinary accretion discs provide a promising mechanism to facilitate the mergers of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. We measure the torques exerted on accreting SMBH binaries, using 2D, isothermal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-29 Yike Tang , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

We present three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations investigating the dependence of the accretion rate on the disc thickness around an equal-mass, circular black hole binary system. We find that for thick/hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Enrico Ragusa , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

Tidal torques acting on a gaseous accretion disk around a binary black hole can create a gap in the disk near the orbital radius. At late times, when the binary inspiral timescale due to gravitational wave emission becomes shorter than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

Black-hole accretion systems are known to possess several distinct modes (or spectral states), such as low/hard state, high/soft state, and so on. Since the dynamics of the corresponding flows is distinct, theoretical models were separately…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Ken Ohsuga , Shin Mineshige , Masao Mori , Yoshiaki Kato

We show that gas disks around the components of an orbiting binary system (so-called minidisks) may be susceptible to a resonant instability which causes the minidisks to become significantly eccentric. Eccentricity is injected by, and also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-14 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

Standard accretion disk theory is formulated which is based on the local heat balance. The energy produced by a turbulent viscous heating is supposed to be emitted to the sides of the disc. Sources of turbulence in the accretion disc are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan
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