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We study the time dependent properties of sub-Keplerian viscous accretion flow around the black holes. We find that rotating matter feels centrifugal barrier on the way towards the black holes and eventually, shock transition is triggered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-20 Santabrata Das , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Aunj Nandi

Radiation pressure-driven outflows from luminous accreting supermassive black holes are an important part of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. The effective Eddington limit, based on absorption of radiation by dust, not electron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 N. Arakawa , A. C. Fabian , G. J. Ferland , W. Ishibashi

More than half of all low-redshift AGN exhibit UV and X-ray absorption by highly ionized gas. The observed UV and X-ray absorption lines are almost always blue-shifted at velocities of hundreds of km/s, indicating that the absorbing gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard A. Kriss

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) as a new subpopulation challenge some fundamental physics of AGNs because the timescales of the phenomenon can hardly be reconciled with accretion disk models. In this Letter{\textit{}}, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Jian-Min Wang , Edi Bon

The optical light curve of the Be/neutron star binary AX J0049.4-7323 has been investigated using data from the MACHO and OGLE-II projects. This X-ray source, whose neutron star has a very slow rotation rate (P_pulse=755.5 sec), shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Cowley , P. C. Schmidtke

Periodic outbursts are observed in several changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs). \citet{sniegowska_possible_2020} suggested a model to explain the repeating CL in these AGNs, where the periodic outbursts are triggered in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Xin Pan , Shuang-Liang Li , Xinwu Cao

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole is expected to lead to a short bright flare followed by an extended period of low-level emission. Existing models of the late-time accretion of the stellar debris via a thin disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert

At luminosities below a few percent of Eddington, accreting black holes switch to a hard spectral state which is very different from the soft blackbody-like spectral state that is found at higher luminosities. The hard state is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramesh Narayan

A fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) whose black holes possess accretion disks; these TDEs can be confused with common AGN flares. The disruption itself is unaffected by the disk, but the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-24 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik , Dekel Saban

The driving force behind outflows, often invoked to understand the correlation between the supermassive black holes powering active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxy properties, remains uncertain. We provide new insights into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Payel Nandi , C. S. Stalin , D. J. Saikia

Relativistic outflows (mainly observed in the radio) are a characteristic feature of both Galactic stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of Galactic sources have shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Churazov , S. Sazonov , R. Sunyaev , W. Forman , C. Jones , H. Boehringer

We describe a model for the long term evolution of a circumplanetary disk that is fed mass from a circumstellar disk and contains regions of low turbulence (dead zones). We show that such disks can be subject to accretion driven outbursts,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. H. Lubow , R. G. Martin

SMC X-2 exhibits X-ray outburst behaviour that makes it one of the most luminous X-ray sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In the last decade it has undergone two such massive outbursts - in 2015 and 2022. The first outburst is well…

We investigate the X-ray spectrum, variability and the surrounding ionized bubble of NGC1313 X-2 to explore the physics of super-Eddington accretion. Beyond the Eddington luminosity, the accretion disk of NGC1313 X-2 is truncated at a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-25 Shan-Shan Weng , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hai-Hui Zhao

Supermassive black holes and supernovae explosions at the centres of active galaxies power cycles of outflowing and inflowing gas that affect galactic evolution and the overall structure of the Universe. While simulations and observations…

We investigate the origins of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei using global three-dimensional meshless finite-mass (MFM) simulations. By modeling stellar and black-hole impactors traversing accretion disks under various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Kun Liu , Shang-Fei Liu , Zhen Pan , Hongping Deng , Rongfeng Shen , Cong Yu

We investigate the time evolution of luminous accretion disks around black holes, conducting the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations. We adopt the alpha prescription for the viscosity. The radial-azimuthal component of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Ohsuga

We study the structure of accretion disks around supermassive black holes in the radial range $30\sim 100$ gravitational radii, using a three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulation. For typical conditions in this region of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Yan-Fei Jiang , Omer Blaes

The widely accepted active galactic nucleus (AGN) paradigm has been recently challenged by the discovery of the so-called ``changing-look'' (CL) phenomenon characterized by spectral-type transitions. By comparing the SDSS-V and SDSS DR16…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , J. Y. Bai , T. G. Brink , C. Gao , W. K. Zheng , A. V. Filippenko

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) form two distinct sequences on the radio-loudness -- Eddington-ratio plane. The `upper' sequence contains radio selected AGNs, the `lower' sequence is composed mainly of optically selected AGNs. The sequences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Sikora , L. Stawarz , J. -P. Lasota