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Disk accretion to rotating stars with complex magnetic fields is investigated using full three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The studied magnetic configurations include superpositions of misaligned dipole and quadrupole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Long , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

Disc accretion to a rotating star with a non-dipole magnetic field is investigated for the first time in full three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. We investigated the cases of (1) pure dipole, (2) pure quadrupole,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Long , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

Using only physical mechanisms, i.e., 3D MHD with no phenomenological viscosity, we have simulated the dynamics of a moderately thin accretion disk subject to torques whose radial scaling mimics those produced by lowest-order post-Newtonian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

We study the dynamics of super-Eddington accretion flows by performing two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations. Compared with previous works, in this paper we include the $T_{\theta\phi}$ component of the viscous stress and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiao-Hong Yang , Feng Yuan , Ken Ohsuga , De-Fu Bu

We report on the first global three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of disk accretion onto a rotating magnetized star through the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The star has a dipole field misaligned relative to the rotation axis by a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Marina M. Romanova , Akshay K. Kulkarni , Richard V. E. Lovelace

In order to study the outflows from accretion disks, we solve the set of hydrodynamic equations for accretion disks in the spherical coordinates ($r\theta\phi$) to obtain the explicit structure along the $\theta$ direction. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-25 Cheng-Liang Jiao , Xue-Bing Wu

We study the stability of poloidal magnetic fields anchored in a thin accretion disc. The two-dimensional hydrodynamics in the disc plane is followed by a grid-based numerical simulation including the vertically integrated magnetic forces.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Stehle , H. C. Spruit

We investigate the behavior of the magnetic Prandtl number (ratio of microscopic viscosity to resistivity) for accretion sources. Generally this number is very small in standard accretion disk models, but can become larger than unity within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven A. Balbus , Pierre Henri

Outflows and convective motions in accretion flows have been intensively discussed recently in the context of advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) based on two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations. We,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , and Shin Mineshige

Numerical simulations of hot accretion flows have shown that the mass accretion rate decreases with decreasing radius. Two models have been proposed to explain this result. In the adiabatic inflow-outflow solution (ADIOS), it is thought to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Maochun Wu

We study mass accretion and ejection in the vicinity of massive star forming cores using high-resolution (5 au) 3D AMR numerical simulations. We investigate the mechanisms at the origin of outflows and characterise the properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Benoît Commerçon , Matthias González , Raphaël Mignon-Risse , Patrick Hennebelle , Neil Vaytet

The ejection of matter in the close vicinity of a young stellar object is investigated, treating the accretion disk as a gravitationally bound reservoir of matter. By solving the resistive MHD equations in 2D axisymmetry using our version…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Miljenko Čemeljić , Hsien Shang , Tzu-Yang Chiang

An investigation is made of disk accretion of matter onto a rotating star with an aligned dipole magnetic field. A new aspect of this work is that when the angular velocity of the star and disk differ substantially we argue that the $\bf B$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We present the effects of ordered large scale magnetic field on the structure of supercritical accretion flow in the presence of outflow. In the cylindrical coordinates ($r, \varphi,z$), We write the 1.5 dimensional, the steady state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Maryam Ghasemnezhad , Shahram Abbassi

We have performed three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of stellar accretion disks, using the PLUTO code, and studied the accretion of gas onto a Jupiter-mass planet and the structure of the circumplanetary gas flow after…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ana Uribe , Hubert Klahr , Thomas Henning

Quasi-spherical supersonic (Bondi-type) accretion to a star with a dipole magnetic field is investigated using resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations. A systematic study is made of accretion to a non-rotating star, while sample results…

We investigate numerical convergence in simulations of magnetically arrested disks around spinning black holes. Using the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++, we study the same system at four resolutions (up to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-25 Christopher J. White , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert

When matter orbits around a central mass obliquely with respect to the mass's spin axis, the Lense-Thirring effect causes it to precess at a rate declining sharply with radius. Ever since the work of Bardeen & Petterson (1975), it has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Kareem A. Sorathia , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

We discuss results of global 3D MHD simulations of accretion on to a rotating magnetized star with a tilted dipole magnetic field, where the accretion is driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). The simulations show that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace