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Advection-dominated, high-temperature, quasi-spherical accretion flow onto a compact object, recently considered by a number of authors, assume that the dissipation of turbulent energy of the flow heats the ions and that the dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

We present a new code for performing general-relativistic radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of accretion flows onto black holes. The radiation field is treated in the optically-thick approximation, with the opacity contributed by Thomson…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-11 Olindo Zanotti , Constanze Roedig , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Del Zanna

It has long been thought that black hole accretion flows are driven by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, and there are now many general relativistic global simulations illustrating the dynamics of this process. However, many challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Chris Nagele , Julian H. Krolik , Rongrong Liu , Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman

We present general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations of the accretion flow around the supermassive black hole in the Galactic centre, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The simulations include for the first time radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Salomé Dibi , Samia Drappeau , P. Chris Fragile , Sera Markoff , Jason Dexter

We present a set of eleven two-temperature, radiative, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (2TGRRMHD) simulations of the black hole M87* in the magnetically arrested (MAD) state, surveying different values of the black hole spin $a_*$.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Andrew Chael

Black hole accretion flows can be divided into two broad classes: cold and hot. Cold accretion flows, which consist of cool optically thick gas, are found at relatively high mass accretion rates. Prominent examples are the standard thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Feng Yuan , Ramesh Narayan

We present the results of global three dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion flows. We focus on the dependence of numerical results on the gas temperature Tout supplied from the outer region. General…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

We present a model of optically thin, two-temperature, accretion flows using an exact Monte Carlo treatment of global Comptonization, with seed photons from synchrotron and bremsstrahlung emission, as well as with a fully general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Niedzwiecki , F. -G. Xie , A. A. Zdziarski

We calculate the structure of accretion disk around a spinning black hole for accretion rates 0.01 - 10 M_sun/s. The model is fully relativistic and treats accurately the disk microphysics including neutrino emissivity, opacity, electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Wen-xin Chen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We present three-dimensional MHD simulations of rotating radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes. In the simulations, we continuously inject magnetized matter into the computational domain near the outer boundary, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan , Marek A. Abramowicz

We present a set of four three-dimensional, general relativistic, radiation MHD simulations of black hole accretion at super-critical mass accretion rates, $\dot{M} > \dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$. We use these simulations to study how disk properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

A new general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamical code KORAL, is described, which employs the M1 scheme to close the radiation moment equations. The code has been successfully verified against a number of tests. Axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , J. C. McKinney , A. Tchekhovskoy

The assumption that radiative cooling of gas in the centers of galaxy clusters is approximately balanced by energy input from a central supermassive black hole implies that the observed X-ray luminosity of the cooling flow region sets a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , W. Forman , H. Boehringer

We study the effect of radiative feedback on accretion onto intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) using the hydrodynamical code ZEUS-MP with a radiative transfer algorithm. In this paper, the first of a series, we assume accretion from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

We present axisymmetric two-temperature general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) simulations of the inner region of the accretion flow onto the supermassive black hole M87. We address uncertainties from previous modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-22 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

We study the two-temperature magnetized advective accretion flow around the Kerr black holes. During accretion, ions are heated up due to viscous dissipation, and when Coulomb coupling becomes effective, they transfer a part of their energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Indu K. Dihingia , Santabrata Das , Geethu Prabhakar , Samir Mandal

We studied magnetically arrested disks (MAD) around rotating black holes (BH), under the influence of radiative cooling. We introduce a critical value of the mass accretion rate $\dot M_{\rm crit}$ for which the cooling by the synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Akshay Singh , Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

Observations of ionized AGN outflows have provided compelling evidence that the radiation field transfers both momentum and energy to the plasma. At parsec scale distances in AGN, energy transfer can dominate, in which case the only force…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-08 Randall Dannen , Daniel Proga , Tim Waters

We obtained thermal equilibrium solutions for optically thin, two-temperature black hole accretion disks incorporating magnetic fields. The main objective of this study is to explain the bright/hard state observed during the bright/slow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiroshi Oda , Mami Machida , Kenji E. Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto

We characterize the nature of thin, axisymmetric, inviscid, accretion flows of cold adiabatic gas with zero specific energy in the vicinity of a black hole by the specific angular momentum. Using two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Diego Molteni