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We study viscous transonic accretion flows in vertical equilibrium in Kerr geometry. We employ the pseudo-Kerr formalism which accurately describes transonic flows around Kerr black holes and is applicable for modelling observational data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Abhrajit Bhattacharjee , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We introduce a novel formalism to investigate the role of the spin angular momentum of astrophysical black holes in influencing the behaviour of low angular momentum general relativistic accretion. We propose a metric independent analysis…

We study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations around the black holes having non-zero rotation. We first compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dinshaw S. Balsara

A number of `modified' Newtonian potentials of various forms are available in the literature which accurately approximate some general relativistic effects important for studying accretion discs around a Schwarzschild black hole. Such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tapas Kumar Das , Aveek Sarkar

Theoretical models have long predicted the existence of shocks in multi-transonic accretion flows onto a black hole, yet their fate under realistic general relativistic simulations has not been fully tested. In this study, we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal , Yosuke Mizuno

In a stationary, general relativistic, axisymmetric, inviscid and rotational accretion flow, described within the Kerr geometric framework, transonicity has been examined by setting up the governing equations of the flow as a first-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sanghamitra Goswami , Saba Nashreen Khan , Arnab K. Ray , Tapas Kumar Das

We study the relativistic accretion flow around a generic stationary axisymmetric space-time and obtain an effective potential ($\Phi^{\rm eff}$) that accurately mimics the general relativistic features of Kerr black hole having spin $0\le…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Indu K. Dihingia , Santabrata Das , Debaprasad Maity , Sayan Chakrabarti

We propose a novel approach to the investigation of how black hole spin influences the behavior of astrophysical accretion. We examine the terminal behavior of general relativistic, multi-transonic, hydrodynamic advective accretion in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paramita Barai , Tapas Kumar Das , Paul J. Wiita

We extend our previous studies of shock waves and shock-free solutions in thin accretion and winds in pseudo-Newtonian geometry to the case when the flow is ``two-dimensional'' and around a ``Kerr black hole''. We present equations for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. K. Chakrabarti

By applying the theory of algebraic polynomials and the theory of dynamical systems, we construct the generalized Sturm sequences/chains to investigate the transonic properties of hydrodynamic accretion onto non-rotating astrophysical black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-13 Shilpi Agarwal , Tapas K. Das , Rukmini Dey

We investigate the axially symmetric accretion of low angular momentum hydrodynamic matter onto a rotating black hole. The gravitational field under consideration is assumed to be described by a pseudo-Newtonian Kerr potential. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Kalyanbrata Pal , Souvik Ghose , Shilpa Sarkar , Tapas K. Das

Realization of the stationary integral solutions of steady state transonic accretion flow in spherical symmetry helps to understand accretion phenomena on various astrophysical objects. In recent years, attempts have been made to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Souvik Ghose , Tapas K. Das

The hydrodynamics of low-angular-momentum, multi-transonic, axisymmetric, inviscid accretion flow onto a rotating black hole has been systematically investigated using three distinct disc geometries and two thermodynamic equations of state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Ripon Sk , Sangita Chatterjee , Sankhasubhra Nag

Theoretical studies of transonic accretion onto black holes reveal a wide range of possible solutions, broadly classified into smooth flows and flows featuring shocks. Accretion solutions that involve the formation of shocks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Raj Kishor Joshi , Antonios Tsokaros , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Ramiz Aktar

We study the relativistic, time-independent, low angular momentum, inviscid, advective accretion flow around Kerr black hole. Considering the relativistic equation of state (REoS), we examine the transonic properties of the flow and find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Indu K. Dihingia , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi

The stationary hydrodynamic equations for the transonic accretion disks and flows around rotating black holes are presented by using the Kerr-Schild coordinate where there is no coordinate singularity at the event horizon. We use two types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rohta Takahashi

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

We linearly perturb advective isothermal transonic accretion onto rotating astrophysical black holes to study the emergence of the relativistic acoustic spacetime and to investigate how the salient features of such spacetime get influenced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-05 Md Arif Shaikh

The equations governing general relativistic, spherically symmetric, hydrodynamic accretion of polytropic fluid onto black holes are solved in Schwarzschild metric to investigate some of the transonic properties of the flow. Only stationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tapas Kumar Das

Low-angular-momentum, axisymmetric, inviscid accretion flows onto a black hole have been studied using the vertical equilibrium disc model, considering multiple pseudo-Schwarzschild potentials and two thermodynamic equations of state. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Ripon Sk , Sangita Chatterjee , Sankhasubhra Nag
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