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M82 X-1 is one of the brightest ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) known, which, assuming Eddington-limited accretion and other considerations, makes it one of the best intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates. However, the ULX may…

We investigate the time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flow onto a non-rotating black hole using axisymmetric viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We simulate the accretion flow using boundary values from semi-analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Raj Kishor Joshi , Philippe Laurent , Priyesh Kumar Tripathi , M. Saleem Khan

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have been instrumental in our understanding of high energy astrophysical phenomena over the past two decades. Their robustness and modularity make them a great tool for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 Mayank Pathak , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The luminosities of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) require an exotic solution with either super-critical accretion modes onto stellar mass black holes or sub-critical accretion onto intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) being invoked.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew J. Middleton , Dominic J. Walton , Timothy P. Roberts , Lucy Heil

We model the multiwavelength properties of binaries accreting at super-critical rates with the aim to better understand the observational properties of Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources (ULXs). We calculate an extended grid of binary systems…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Elena Ambrosi , Luca Zampieri , Fabio Pintore , Anna Wolter

Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are accreting black holes for which their X-ray properties have been seen to be different to the case of stellar-mass black hole binaries. For most of the cases their intrinsic energy spectra are well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-23 M. D. Caballero-Garcia , M. Bursa , M. Dovciak , S. Fabrika , A. J. Castro-Tirado , V. Karas

We examine the properties of the viscous dissipative accretion flow around rotating black holes in presence of mass loss. Considering thin disc approximation, we self-consistently calculate the inflow-outflow solutions and observe that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Ramiz Aktar , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi , H. Sreehari

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) have captivated researchers for decades due to their exceptionally high luminosities and unique spectral characteristics. Some of these sources defy expectations by exhibiting super-Eddington luminosities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Mayank Pathak , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We study low-density axisymmetric accretion flows onto black holes (BHs) with two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, adopting the $\alpha$-viscosity prescription. When the gas angular momentum is low enough to form a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-18 Kohei Inayoshi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Zoltan Haiman , Rolf Kuiper

An optically thin advective accretion disk is crucial for explaining the hard state of black hole sources. Using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, we investigate how a large-scale, strong magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We examine the effect of variable viscosity parameter ($\alpha$) in relativistic, low angular momentum advective accretion flow around rotating black holes. Following the recent simulation studies of magnetohydrodynamic disk that reveal the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 Monu Singh , Santabrata Das

Studies of X-ray continuum emission and flux variability have not conclusively revealed the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) at the high-luminosity end of the distribution (those with Lx > 1e40 erg/s). These are of particular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Walton , J. M. Miller , F. A. Harrison , A. C. Fabian , T. P. Roberts , M. J. Middleton , R. C. Reis

The Ultra Luminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are unique in exhibiting moderately bright X-ray luminosities, $L_{\rm x} \sim 10^{38-40} {\rm erg~s^{-1}}$, and relatively high blackbody temperatures, $\Tin \sim 1.0-2.0 {\rm keV}$. From the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken-ya Watarai , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Shin Mineshige

X-ray continuum spectra of super-Eddington accretion flow are studied by means of Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations based on the radiation hydrodynamic simulation data, in which both of thermal and bulk Compton scatterings are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Takaaki Kitaki , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima

Ultra-/hyper-luminous X-ray sources (ULX/HLX) could be interesting laboratories to improve our understanding of the supermassive black hole growth through super-Eddington accretion episodes and successive mergers of lighter holes. ULXs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Hugo Tranin , Natalie Webb , Olivier Godet , Erwan Quintin

We investigate the behaviour of low angular momentum viscous accretion flows around black holes using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Earlier, it has been observed that in a significant part of the energy and angular momentum…

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

We present global solutions that describe advection-dominated accretion flows around black holes. The solutions are obtained by numerically solving a set of coupled ordinary differential equations corresponding to a steady axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ramesh Narayan , Shoji Kato , Fumio Honma

We observed the Ultraluminous X-ray Source IC 342 X-1 simultaneously in X-ray and radio with Chandra and the JVLA to investigate previously reported unresolved radio emission coincident with the ULX. The Chandra data reveal a spectrum that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hannah Marlowe , Philip Kaaret , Cornelia Lang , Hua Feng , Fabien Grise , Neal Miller , David Cseh , Stephane Corbel , Richard F. Mushotzky

We study the relativistic, inviscid, advective accretion flow around the black holes and investigate a key feature of the accretion flow, namely the shock waves. We observe that the shock-induced accretion solutions are prevalent and such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Swapnil Singh , Ramiz Aktar , Samik Mitra

The lack of unambiguous detections of atomic features in the X-ray spectra of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has proven a hindrance in diagnosing the nature of the accretion flow. The possible association of spectral residuals at soft…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Matthew J. Middleton , Dominic J. Walton , Andrew Fabian , Timothy P. Roberts , Lucy Heil , Ciro Pinto , Gemma Anderson , Andrew Sutton