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We present a comprehensive analysis of super-Eddington black hole accretion simulations that solve the GRMHD equations coupled with angle-discretized radiation transport. The simulations span a range of accretion rates, two black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Christopher J. White , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen

The recent 230 GHz observations by the Event Horizon Telescope have resolved the innermost structure of the M87 galaxy, revealing a ring-like feature consistent with thermal synchrotron emission from a magnetized torus surrounding a…

We present a sub-grid model that emulates the magnetic dynamo operating in magnetized accretion disks. We have implemented this model in the general relativisic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) code \koral, using results from local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , David Abarca , Yucong Zhu , Jonathan C. McKinney

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 present two general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around non-spinning ($a_*=0$) and spinning ($a_*=0.9$) supermassive black holes (BHs). In each simulation, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Ramesh Narayan

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

(Abridged) We present one of the first physically-motivated two-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations of a radiatively-cooled black-hole accretion disk. The fiducial simulation combines a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Chris Fragile , David L. Meier

Recent high resolution observations of the Galactic center black hole allow for direct comparison with accretion disk simulations. We compare two-temperature synchrotron emission models from three dimensional, general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-26 Jason Dexter , Eric Agol , P. Chris Fragile , Jonathan C. McKinney

The recent 230 GHz observations of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are able to image the innermost structure of the M87 and show a ring-like structure which is in agreement with thermal synchrotron emission generated in a torus…

The recent imaging of the M87 black hole at millimeter wavelengths by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has triggered a renewed interest in numerical models for the accretion of magnetized plasma in the regime of general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Tomei , L. Del Zanna , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

Numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence makes it possible to study accretion dynamics in detail. However, special effort is required to connect inflow dynamics (dependent largely on angular momentum transport) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, an Earth-size sub-millimetre radio interferometer, recently captured the first images of the central supermassive black hole in M87. These images were interpreted as gravitationally-lensed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Hector Olivares , Luciano Rezzolla

We study spectra produced by weakly accreting black hole (BH) systems using the semi-analytic advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) model and the general-relativistic magentohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation. We find significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Andrzej Niedzwiecki , Michal Szanecki , Agnieszka Janiuk

We compare X-ray emission from several general relativistic, multi-frequency, radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin black hole accretion disks with different accretion rates and spins. The simulations were performed using the M1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-05 Nathaniel Roth , Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile , Derrick Pickrel

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 use the Athena++ Monte Carlo (MC) radiation transfer module to post-process simulation snapshots from non-relativistic Athena++ radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations. These simulations were run using a gray (frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-18 Brianna S. Mills , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Matthew J. Middleton

Using three-dimensional general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of accretion flows around stellar mass black holes, we report that the relatively cold disk ($\gtrsim 10^{7}$K) is truncated near the black hole. Hot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We present the first spectral energy distributions produced self-consistently by 2.5D general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) numerical simulations, where radiative cooling is included in the dynamical calculation. As a case…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Samia Drappeau , Salomé Dibi , Jason Dexter , Sera Markoff , P. Chris Fragile

Spectral fits to M87 core data from radio to hard x-ray are generated via a specially selected software suite, comprised of the HARM GRMHD accretion disk model and a 2D Monte Carlo radiation transport code. By determining appropriate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-13 Guy Hilburn , Edison Liang

We have performed a series of two-dimensional two-temperature general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetized accretion flows initiated from tori with different sizes and poloidal magnetic loop polarities. In these two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail