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The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impact of precession on the light curves of tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Diego Calderón , Ondřej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Paul C. Duffell , Stephan Rosswog

The effects of gas accretion on spiral disk dynamics and stability are studied through N-body simulations, including star formation and gas/stars mass exchange. The detailed processes of bar formation, bar destruction and bar re-formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Bournaud , F. Combes

We study the probability of close encounters between stars from a nuclear cluster and a massive black hole. The gravitational field of the system is dominated by the black hole in its sphere of influence. It is further modified by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-23 V. Karas , L. Subr

We present time-dependent simulations of a two-phase accretion flow around a black hole. The accretion flow initially is composed of an optically thick and cool disc close to the midplane, while on top and below the disc there is a hot and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Mayer , J. E. Pringle

Simulations of hot, pressure supported, tilted black hole accretion flows, in which the angular momentum of the flow is misaligned with the black hole spin axis, can exhibit two non-axisymmetric shock structures in the inner regions of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Aleksey Generozov , Omer Blaes , P. Chris Fragile , Ken B. Henisey

The orbital decay and tidal disruption of a star cluster in a galaxy is studied in an analytical manner. Owing to dynamical friction, the star cluster spirals in toward the center of the galaxy. Simultaneously, the galactic tidal field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mouri , Y. Taniguchi

We investigate the problem of structures formation in accretion disc zone, resulting from the tidally interaction in close binary star system. We aim to examine the area where the incoming flow meets the matter around secondary star and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-11 Daniela Boneva , Lachezar Filipov

We study the structure and dynamics of the gap created by a protoplanet in an accretion disc. The hydrodynamic equations for a flat, two-dimensional, non-selfgravitating protostellar accretion disc with an embedded, Jupiter sized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-01 Willy Kley

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

Our current understanding of the physical processes of star formation is reviewed, with emphasis on processes occurring in molecular clouds like those observed nearby. The dense cores of these clouds are predicted to undergo gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard B. Larson

We present a numerical code designed to study astrophysical phenomena involving dynamical spacetimes containing black holes in the presence of relativistic hydrodynamic matter. We present evolutions of the collapse of a fluid star from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Stuart L. Shapiro , Hwei-Jang Yo

Structure of a quasi-stationary stellar cluster is modelled assuming that it is embedded in the gravitational field of a super-massive black hole. Gradual orbital decay of stellar trajectories is caused by the dissipative interaction with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Subr , V. Karas , J. -M. Hure

We investigate the impact of gas accretion in streams on the evolution of disc galaxies, using magneto-hydrodynamic simulations including advection and anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays generated by supernovae as the only source of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Nicolas Peschken , Michał Hanasz , Thorsten Naab , Dominik Wóltański , Artur Gawryszczak

One of the greatest issues in modelling black hole fuelling is our lack of understanding of the processes by which gas loses angular momentum and falls from galactic scales down to the nuclear region where an accretion disc forms,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-24 Juan Manuel Carmona-Loaiza , Monica Colpi , Massimo Dotti , Riccardo Valdarnini

I review theoretical aspects of the interaction between the accretion stream and the disk in interacting binary systems, concentrating on recent hydrodynamic calculations. At low accretion rates, cooling is expected to be efficient, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip J. Armitage

It is quite likely that self-gravity will play an important role in the evolution of accretion discs, in particular those around young stars, and those around supermassive black holes. We summarise, here, our current understanding of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Ken Rice

A bright flare from a galactic nucleus followed at late times by a $t^{-5/3}$ decay in luminosity is often considered the signature of the complete tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole. The flare and power-law decay are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Christopher Evans , Pablo Laguna , Michael Eracleous

Disk accretion may be the fundamental astrophysical process. Stars and planets form through the accretion of gas in a disk. Black holes and galaxies co-evolve through efficient disk accretion onto the central supermassive black hole.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-27 J. M. Miller , M. Nowak , K. Nandra , W. N. Brandt , G. Matt , M. Cappi , G. Risaliti , S. Kitamoto , F. Paerels , M. Watson , R. Smith , M. Weisskopf , Y. Terashima , Y. Ueda

An initially retrograde accretion flow is transformed into a prograde configuration before plunging into the black hole, as a result of the frame-dragging effect induced by the black hole's rotation. The polarized image of a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-22 Xinyu Wang , Songbai Chen , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

High-velocity stellar collisions near supermassive black holes may result in a complete disruption of the stars. The initial disruption can have energies on par with supernovae and power a very fast transient. In this work we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Yuval Brutman , Elad Steinberg , Shmuel Balberg