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Recent observations and theoretical work on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) favor the central engine model of a Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a magnetized neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). The magnetic coupling between the BH and disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-03 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , L. Zhang , Z. M. Gan , Y. C. Zou , Y. Xie

Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) around rotating stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are plausible candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). NDAFs are hyperaccretion disks with accretion rates in the range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Bing Zhang

We present the effects of the self-gravity on the vertical structure and neutrino luminosity of the neutrino-dominated accretion disks in cylindrical coordinates. It is found that significant changes of the structure appear in the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Tong Liu , Xiao-Fei Yu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

The present work proposes a new formalism for the inner regions of a neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) by considering the self-gravity, where the neutrino opacity is high enough to make neutrinos trapped becoming a dominant factor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Narjes Shahamat , Shahram Abbassi , Tong Liu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) might be powered by a black hole (BH) hyperaccretion systems via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism or neutrino annihilation from neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs). Magnetic coupling (MC) between the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Yun-Feng Wei

A neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) is one of the plausible candidates for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two mechanisms, i.e., Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Tong Liu , Shu-Jin Hou , Li Xue , Wei-Min Gu

Many models of gamma-ray bursts suggest a common central engine: a black hole of several solar masses accreting matter from a disk at an accretion rate from 0.01 to 10 M_\sun / s. The inner region of the disk is cooled by neutrino emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yi Xie , Chang-Yin Huang , Wei-Hua Lei

A stellar mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) has been discussed in a number of works as the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). It is widely believed that NDAF cannot liberate enough energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Wei Xie , Wei-Hua Lei , Ding-Xiong Wang

Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) surrounded by neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) are a leading central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this work, we investigate the electron fraction distribution in NDAFs with or without disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Rui-Qi Cui , Tong Liu

A stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) is generally considered to be the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Neutrinos escaping from the disk will annihilate out of the disk to produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Xiao-Yan Li , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang , Guo-Yu Li , Da-Bin Lin , Zhi-Lin Chen , Yun Wang

Neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) is one of the plausible candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Because the time-variant and anisotropic emission of neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Tong Liu , Chao-Yang Lin , Cui-Ying Song , Ang Li

In astrophysical systems like X-ray binaries (XRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGN), and young stellar objects (YSOs), we often observe a very fundamental structure called accretion discs(ADs). Conventional AD theory usually supposes that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Darashan Saikia , Liza Devi , Biplob Sarkar , Asish Jyoti Boruah

We investigate the physical properties of the central engine powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), modelled as a stellar-mass black hole accreting via a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). By solving the governing hydrodynamic equations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Amit Kumar , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

The central engine of Gamma Ray Bursts is hidden from direct probing with photons mainly due to the high densities involved. Inferences on their properties are thus made from their cosmological setting, energetics, low-energy counterparts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Augusto Carballido , William H. Lee

The neutrino-cooled accretion disk, which was proposed to work as the central engine of gamma-ray bursts, encounters difficulty in interpreting the X-ray flares after the prompt gamma-ray emission. In this paper, the magnetic coupling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Yang Luo , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Ju-Fu Lu

The neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) with accretion rates \dot{M} = 0.01 - 10 M_{\sun} s^{-1} is a plausible candidate for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This hyperaccretion disk is optically thin to neutrinos in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Shu Luo , Feng Yuan

Neutrino annihilation process on a hyperaccreting disk is one of the leading models to explain the generation of relativistic jets of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, there is still uncertainty regarding the NAE of neutron star-accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-11 Shuang Du , Fang-Kun Peng , Guang-Bo Long , Miao Li

Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) around rotating stellar-mass black holes are plausible candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We investigate one-dimensional global solutions of NDAFs, taking account of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Li Xue , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

We calculate the structure and neutron content of neutrino-heated MHD winds driven from the surface of newly-formed magnetars (``proto-magnetars'') and from the midplane of hyper-accreting disks, two of the possible central engines for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert

The X-ray flares have usually been ascribed to long-lasting activities of the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), e.g., fallback accretion. The GRB X-ray plateaus, however, favor a millisecond magnetar central engine. The fallback…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Tian-Ci Zheng , Long Li , Le Zou , Xiang-Gao Wang
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