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We present axisymmetric numerical simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes combining general relativity, magnetohydrodynamics, self-consistent electron thermodynamics, and frequency-dependent radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

It has long been thought that black hole accretion flows are driven by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, and there are now many general relativistic global simulations illustrating the dynamics of this process. However, many challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Chris Nagele , Julian H. Krolik , Rongrong Liu , Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman

We present global radiation GRMHD simulations of strongly magnetized accretion onto a spinning, stellar mass black hole at sub-Eddington rates. Using a frequency-dependent Monte Carlo procedure for Compton scattering, we self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Jason Dexter , Nicolas Scepi , Mitchell C. Begelman

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 perform stability analysis of an accretion disc around a stellar mass black hole. The cooling of the accretion flow due to bremsstrahlung and synchrotron radiation processes are considered. The solutions with shock are perturbed at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sivakumar G. Manickam

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

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

We present axisymmetric two-temperature general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) simulations of the inner region of the accretion flow onto the supermassive black hole M87. We address uncertainties from previous modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-22 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

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

We present general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of merging equal-mass, spinning black holes embedded in an equatorial thin slab of magnetized gas. We evolve black holes either non-spinning, with spins aligned to the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-31 Giacomo Fedrigo , Federico Cattorini , Bruno Giacomazzo , Monica Colpi

We use the public code ebhlight to carry out 3D radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations of accretion onto the supermassive black hole in M87. The simulations self-consistently evolve a frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Philippe Z. Yao , Jason Dexter , Alexander Y. Chen , Benjamin R. Ryan , George N. Wong

Sgr A* represents a unique laboratory for the detailed study of accretion processes around a low-luminosity supermassive black hole (SMBH). Recent X-ray observations have allowed for spatially resolved modeling of the emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Ren-Yi Ma , Shawn R. Roberts , Ya-Ping Li , Q. Daniel Wang

We present a comprehensive analysis of four near-Eddington black hole accretion models computed by solving the GRMHD equations with full radiation transport. This study focuses on the dynamical effects of magnetic field topology and black…

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

We present a new code for performing general-relativistic radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of accretion flows onto black holes. The radiation field is treated in the optically-thick approximation, with the opacity contributed by Thomson…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-11 Olindo Zanotti , Constanze Roedig , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Del Zanna

We have calculated the structures and the emergent spectra of stationary, geometrically thin accretion disks around 100 and 1000 M_sun black holes in both the Schwarzschild and extreme Kerr metrics. Equations of radiative transfer,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Hui , J. H. Krolik , I. Hubeny

We perform axisymmetric two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington accretion flow and outflow around black holes to examine the properties of radiation and outflow as functions of the black hole mass and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Shogo Yoshioka , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Takaaki Kitaki

We discuss a variety of bremsstrahlung processes associated with charged particles emitted by evaporating black holes. We show that such particles produce a negligible number of bremsstrahlung photons from their scattering off each other,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Don N. Page , B. J. Carr , Jane H. MacGibbon

We have calculated stationary models for accretion disks around super-massive black holes in galactic nuclei. Our models show that below a critical mass flow rate of ~3 10**-3 M_Edd advection will dominate the energy budget while above that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Beckert , W. J. Duschl

We model non-thermal emission spectrum of the extremely sub-Eddington X-ray binary system A0620-00. It is believed that this non-thermal emission is produced by a radiatively inefficient "quiescent" accretion onto a stellar-mass black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Monika Moscibrodzka

We present general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of super-Eddington accretion flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) which may apply to tidal disruption events (TDEs). We perform long duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Brandon Curd , Razieh Emami , Richard Anantua , Daniel Palumbo , Sheperd Doeleman , Ramesh Narayan
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