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Both types of long and short gamma ray bursts involve a stage of a hyper-Eddington accretion of hot and dense plasma torus onto a newly born black hole. The prompt gamma ray emission originates in jets at some distance from this 'central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Ye-Fei Yuan , Rosalba Perna , Tiziana Di Matteo

Accretion discs around black holes power some of the most luminous objects in the Universe. Discs that are misaligned to the black hole spin can become warped over time by Lense-Thirring precession. Recent work has shown that strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Anagha Raj , Chris Nixon

The current popular model for launching, accelerating and collimating astrophysical jets is based on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). AGN jets are most probably powered by energy extracted from either an accretion disk or a rapidly rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Max Camenzind

The physical mechanism for triggering the changing-look phenomenon in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still unclear. We explore this issue based on the multi-wavelength spectral and flux variations for a changing-look AGN Mrk~1018 with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Bing Lyu , Zhen Yan , Wenfei Yu , Qingwen Wu

We report on our attempt to understand the outbursting profile of Galactic Black Hole (GBH) sources, keeping in mind the evolution of temporal and spectral features during the outburst. We present results of evolution of Quasi-periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 H. Sreehari , Anuj Nandi , D. Radhika , Nirmal Iyer , Samir Mandal

Recent observations of changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) hint at a frequency of accretion activity not fully explained by tidal disruption events (TDEs) stemming from relaxation processes in nucleus star clusters (NSCs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Yihan Wang , Douglas N. C. Lin , Bing Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

The nature of lag variation of Galactic black holes remains enigmatic mostly because of nonlinear and non-local physical mechanisms which contribute to the lag of the photons coming from the region close to the central black holes. One of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Dusmanta Patra , Arka Chatterjee , Broja G. Dutta , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Prantik Nandi

An increasing number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) exhibit broad, double-peaked Balmer emission lines,which represent some of the best evidence for the existence of relatively large-scale accretion disks in AGNs. A set of 20…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Karen T. Lewis , Michael Eracleous , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Changing-state active galactic nuclei (CSAGNs) exhibit rapid variability, with mass accretion rates that can change by several orders of magnitude in a few years. This provides us with a unique opportunity to study the evolution of the…

We perform simulations to study the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) radiation and wind feedback on the properties of slowly rotating accretion flow at parsec scale. We find that when only radiative feedback is considered, outflows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang

We argue that the observed `accretion rate gap' - between black holes in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) accreting at close to the Eddington limit and those accreting at considerably lower rates - can be explained in terms of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mitchell C. Begelman , Annalisa Celotti

The most plausible mechanism for triggering the outburst of black hole candidate X-ray transients is the ionization thermal instability. The disk instability models can give the observed mass flow in quiescence, but not the X-ray spectrum.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Craig Wheeler , S. -W. Kim , M. D. Moscoso , M. Kusunose , S. Mineshige

Two-dimensional accretion flows near black holes have been investigated by time-dependent hydrodynamical calculations. We assume that the flow is axisymmetric and that radiative losses of internal energy are negligible, so that the disc is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Xingming Chen , Marek A. Abramowicz

I show that Eddington accretion episodes in AGN are likely to produce winds with velocities $v \sim 0.1c$ and ionization parameters up to $\xi \sim 10^4$ (cgs), implying the presence of resonance lines of helium-- and hydrogenlike iron.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. R. King

NGC 1566 is a changing look AGN known to exhibit recurrent X-ray outbursts with each lasting for several years. The most recent X-ray outburst is observed on 2018, with a substantial increase of 2--10 keV flux by a factor of ~24 than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-27 W. C. Liang , X. W. Shu , J. X. Wang , Y. Tan , W. J. Zhang , L. M. Sun , N. Jiang , L. M. Dou

The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long held the promise of shedding light on their detailed structure, and possibly other astrophysical phenonema. Different emission mechanisms lead to different patterns of variability in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. S. Hawkins

The time-scales of the variabilities in changing look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are usually at the order of years to tens of years (some of them are even shorter than one year), which are much shorter than the viscous timescale of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-29 Junjie Feng , Xinwu Cao , Jia-wen Li , Wei-Min Gu

Previous theoretical studies have found that repeating outbursts can occur in certain regions of an accretion disk, due to sudden transitions in time from gravitationally produced turbulence to magnetically produced turbulence. We analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

Accretion disks around supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei produce continuum radiation at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths. Physical processes in the accretion flow lead to stochastic variability of this emission on a wide…

The black hole of an active galactic nucleus is encircled by an accretion disk. The surface density of the disk is always too low to affect the tidal disruption of a star, but it can be high enough that a vigorous interaction results when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-03 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik