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The collapse of interstellar gaseous clouds towards a protostar leads to the formation of accretion disks around the central star. Such disks can be dynamically stable if they settle in an axisymmetric state. In this letter, we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-07 Florian Ragossnig , Lukas Gehrig , Ernst A. Dorfi , Daniel Steiner , Alexander Stökl

Neustadt & Kochanek (2022, hereafter NK22) proposed a new method to reconstruct the temperature perturbation map (as functions of time and disc radius) of AGN accretion discs using multi-wavelength photometric light curves. We apply their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-22 Zachary Stone , Yue Shen

A new description of the dynamics of warped accretion discs is presented. A theory of fully nonlinear, slowly varying bending waves is developed, involving a proper treatment of viscous fluid dynamics but neglecting self-gravitation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. I. Ogilvie

We argue that an expanding quark-gluon plasma has an anomalous viscosity, which arises from interactions with dynamically generated color fields. We derive an expression for the anomalous viscosity in the turbulent plasma domain and apply…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Asakawa , S. A. Bass , B. Müller

We explore conditions and structure of accretion disks in short-period Cata- clysmic Variables (CVs), which have evolved beyond the period minimum. We show that accretion discs in systems with extreme mass ratios grow up to the size of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 Sergey Zharikov , Gaghik Tovmassian , Andres Aviles , Mauricio Tapia , Miguel Roth

First order quark hadron phase transition is considered in scaling hydrodynamics including the Csernai-Kapusta model of nucleation of hadronic bubbles leading to supercooling. The effect of viscosity on the entropy production is studied in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. Shukla , S. K. Gupta A. K. Mohanty

An effect of stimulated radiation processes on thermal radiation from an accretion disk is considered. The radial density waves triggering flare emission and producing quasi-periodic oscillations in radiation from an accretion disk are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. V. Prigara

The standard equilibrium for radiation-dominated accretion disks has long been known to be viscously, thermally, and convectively unstable, but the nonlinear development of these instabilities---hence the actual state of such disks---has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eric Agol , Julian Krolik , Neal Turner , James Stone

The existing disk instability model for dwarf nova eruptions is reviewed, in the light of recent progress in the understanding of angular momentum transport in accretion disks. It is proposed that the standard lower branch in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Livio

Vortex states in high-$T_{\rm c}$ superconductors with point defects are studied by large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of the three-dimensional frustrated XY model. A critical point is observed on the first-order phase boundary between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshihiko Nonomura , Xiao Hu

We consider axisymmetric viscous accretion flows where a fraction f of the viscously dissipated energy is advected with the accreting gas as stored entropy and a fraction 1-f is radiated. When f is small (i.e. very little advection), our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi

The self-sustained turbulence which develops in magnetized accretion disks is suppressed in the weakly-ionized, quiescent disks of close binary stars. Because accretion still proceeds during quiescence, another viscosity mechanism operates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristen Menou

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamical behaviour of hot accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction on hot accretion flow is confirmed by observations of the hot gas that surrounds Sgr A$^*$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei

The Ultra-luminous Compact X-ray Sources (ULXs) in nearby spiral galaxies and the Galactic super-luminal jet sources share the common spectral characteristic that they have extremely high disk temperatures which cannot be explained in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Ebisawa , Aya Kubota , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Piotr Zycki

Hydrodynamic simulations have been used to study accretion disks consisting of counterrotating components with an intervening shear layer(s). Configurations of this type can arise from the accretion of newly supplied counterrotating matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. A. Kuznetsov , R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , V. M. Chechetkin

Explaining variability observed in the accretion flows of black hole X-ray binary systems remains challenging, especially concerning timescales less than, or comparable to, the viscous timescale but much larger than the inner orbital period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-26 Hal J. Cambier , David M. Smith

Quasicrystals are characterized by quasi-periodic arrangements of atoms. The description of their mechanics involves deformation and a (so called phason) vector field accounting at macroscopic scale of local phase changes, due to atomic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Luca Bisconti , Paolo Maria Mariano

We discuss the basic hydrodynamics that determines the density structure of the disks around hot stars. Observational evidence supports the idea that these disks are Keplerian (rotationally supported) gaseous disks. A popular scenario in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. C. Carciofi , J. E. Bjorkman

The UV/optical variation, likely driven by accretion disc turbulence, is a defining characteristic of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars. In this work we investigate an interesting consequence of such turbulence using quasars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Wen-Yong Kang , Jun-Xian Wang , Zhen-Yi Cai , Wen-Ke Ren

The exotic nature of many strongly correlated materials at reasonably high temperatures, for instance cuprate superconductors in their normal state, has lead to the suggestion that such behavior occurs within a quantum critical region where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-30 Claudio Castelnovo , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry , Pierre Pujol , .