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We study the effects of magnetic field in the formation of a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) in the presence of Bremsstrahlung cooling, which facilitates the formation of a geometrically thin, optically thick accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Anish Sarkar , Mayukh Pahari

Magnetorotational instability (MRI)-driven turbulence and dynamo phenomena are analyzed using direct statistical simulations. Our approach begins by developing a unified mean-field model that combines the traditionally decoupled problems of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Tushar Mondal , Pallavi Bhat

A radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF), which is commonly characterized by its sub-Keplerian nature, is a favored accretion model for the supermassive black hole at Galactic center, Sagittarius A$^{*}$. To investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Hung-Yi Pu , Kazunori Akiyama , Keiichi Asada

A model for axisymmetric magnetized accretion flow is proposed. The dominant mechanism of energy dissipation is assumed to be the magnetic diffusivity due to turbulence in the accretion flow. In analogy to the advection-dominated accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohsen Shadmehri

Magnetohydrodynamic accretion disk simulations suggest that much of the energy liberated by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can be channeled into large-scale toroidal magnetic fields through dynamo action. Under certain conditions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Christopher S. Reynolds

The magnetorotational instability is thought to play an important role in enabling accretion in sufficiently ionized astrophysical disks. The rate at which MRI-driven turbulence transports angular momentum is related to both the strength of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-26 Gareth C. Murphy , Martin E. Pessah

Magnetorotational Instability (MRI), the instability causing turbulent transport in accretion disks, is studied in the kinetic regime. Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows (RIAFs), like the one around the supermassive black hole in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Prateek Sharma

The launching of magnetohydrodynamic outflows from accretion disks is considered. We formulate a model for the local vertical structure of a thin disk threaded by a poloidal magnetic field of dipolar symmetry. The model consists of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Mario Livio

In this paper I propose that the inner part of a black hole accretion inflow ($< 100 r_{g}$) may enter a magnetically-dominated, magnetosphere-like phase in which the strong, well-ordered fields play a more important role than weak,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Meier

Accretion flows onto underluminous black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy, are dilute (mildly collisional to highly collisionless), optically thin, and radiatively inefficient. Therefore, the accretion properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Tanim Islam

We present the first results of a global axisymmetric simulation of accretion onto rotating magnetized stars from a turbulent, MRI-driven disk. The angular momentum is transported outward by the magnetic stress of the turbulent flow with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marina M. Romanova , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Simulations of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a homogeneous shearing box have shown that the asymptotic strength of the magnetic field declines steeply with increasing resolution. Here I model the MRI driven dynamo as a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Ethan T. Vishniac

Local shearing box simulations of stratified magneto rotational turbulence invariably exhibit cyclic field patterns which propagate away from the disc midplane. A common explanation for this is magnetic buoyancy. The recent analysis by Shi…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Oliver Gressel

Observations in polarized emission reveal the existence of large-scale coherent magnetic fields in a wide range of spiral galaxies. Radio-polarization data show that these fields are strongly inclined towards the radial direction, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Gressel , Udo Ziegler , Detlef Elstner , Günther Rüdiger

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism for transportation of angular momentum and dissipation of energy within hot, ionized accretion discs. This instability is produced through the interactions of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Oscar M. Pimentel , P. Chris Fragile , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Bridget Ierace , Deepika Bollimpalli

We present the results of axisymmetric, time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows around black holes. The calculations begin from a rotationally supported thick torus which contains a weak poloidal field. Accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James M. Stone , James E. Pringle

The dynamo driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to play an important role in the dynamics of accretion discs and may also explain the origin of the extreme magnetic fields present in magnetars. Its saturation level…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Jerome Guilet , Alexis Reboul-Salze , Raphael Raynaud , Matteo Bugli , Basile Gallet

We present global 3D GRMHD simulations of black hole (BH) accretion disks designed to investigate how MRI-driven dynamo action regulates jet formation and evolution. Unlike standard SANE/MAD setups that impose a coherent large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 P. S. Santhiya , Pallavi Bhat , Prayush Kumar , Tushar Mondal , Indu K. Dihingia

Astrophysical jets are launched from strongly magnetized systems that host an accretion disk surrounding a central object. The origin of the jet launching magnetic field is one of the open questions for modeling the accretion-ejection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-07 Giancarlo Mattia , Christian Fendt

We show that an MHD-instability driven dynamo (IDD) operating in a hot accretion disk is capable of generating energetically adequate magnetic flux deposition rates above and below a mildly advective accretion disk structure. The dynamo is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rafael Angel Araya-Gochez