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We have investigated electro-magnetic (EM) wave pulses in a jet from a neutrino driven accretion flow (NDAF) around a black hole (BH). NDAFs are massive accretion disks whose accretion rates of $\dot{M}\approx 0.01 - 10…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Yoshiaki Kato , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Toshiki Tajima

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 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

We investigate the relativistic, viscous, advective, neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) around rotating stellar mass black holes, incorporating neutrino cooling. By adopting an effective potential to describe the spacetime geometry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Amit Kumar , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

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

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

Neutrino-cooled accretion flow around a black hole, produced by a compact binary merger, is a promising scenario for jet formation and magnetic-driven winds to explain short duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) central engine and kilonovae…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-06 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk

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

The ultrarelativistic jets triggered by neutrino annihilation processes or Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanisms in stellar-mass black hole (BH) hyperaccretion systems are generally considered to power gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Due to the high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Hui-Min Qu , Tong Liu

Merging of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) could take place within the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The resulting BH remnant is likely to accrete the disk gas at a super-Eddington rate, launching a fast,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Zhi-Peng Ma , Kai Wang

As progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core collapse of massive stars and coalescence of compact object binaries are believed to be powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs). In the collapsar scenario, a rotating stellar-mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu

We present the effects of the vertical convection on the structure and luminosity of the neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a stellar-mass black hole in spherical coordinates. We found that the convective energy transfer can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Norita Kawanaka , Ang Li

The central engine that drives gamma ray burst (GRB) explosions may derive from the ability of electrons/positrons and nucleons to tap into the momentum and energy from the large neutrino luminosity emitted by an accretion disk surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 J. P. Kneller , G. C. McLaughlin , R. Surman

Several issues regarding the Blandford-Znajek process are discussed to demonstrate that it can be an effective mechanism for powering the gamma ray bursts. Using a simple circuit analysis it is argued that the disk power increases the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hyun Kyu Lee , G. E. Brown , R. A. M. J. Wijers

Black hole (BH) mergers are natural sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and are possibly associated with electromagnetic events. Such events from a charged rotating BH with an accretion on to it could be more energetic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Shad Ali

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are generally considered to originate from the massive collapsars. It is believed that the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Jian-Xiang Tian

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

Mergers of neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) or neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) binaries are candidate sources of gravitational waves (GWs). At least a fraction of the merger remnant should be a stellar mass BH with a sub-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Shuai-Bing Ma , Wei-Hua Lei , He Gao , Wei Xie , Wei Chen , Bing Zhang , Ding-Xiong Wang

We investigate the stability of a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF), which is expected to be formed in the gravitational collapse of a massive star or the merger of a neutron star binary, based on the variable-$\alpha$ prescription.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Norita Kawanaka , Youhei Masada

A hyperaccretion disk formed around a stellar mass black hole is a plausible model for the central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If the central black hole rotates and a poloidal magnetic field threads its horizon, a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Norita Kawanaka , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik