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Dwarf Novae and low-mass X-ray binaries are eruptive binary systems comprised of a Roche-lobe overflowing solar-type star and an accreting compact object. Their recurrence time can be explained by a low-accreting phase, the quiescence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Marc Van den Bossche , Geoffroy Lesur , Guillaume Dubus

Winds from black hole accretion disks are essential ingredients in understanding the coevolution between the supermassive black hole and its host galaxy. The great difference of dynamical ranges from small-scale accretion disk simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Can Cui , Feng Yuan

A review is made of recent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory and simulations of origin of jets from accretion disks. Many compact astrophysical objects emit powerful, highly-collimated, oppositely directed jets. Included are the extra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (BHs) can launch relativistic jets that inject energy and momentum into their surroundings. Understanding how such feedback shapes large-scale accretion is key to bridging observations from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Elias R. Most , Bart Ripperda , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

We explore the effects of anisotropic thermal conduction, anisotropic pressure, and magnetic field strength on the hot accretion flows around black holes by solving the axisymmetric, steady-state magnetohydrodynamic equations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Amin Mosallanezhad , Fatemeh Zahra Zeraatgari , Liquan Mei , De-Fu Bu

We describe global, 3D, time-dependent, non-radiative, general-relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes (BHs). The simulations are designed to transport a large amount of magnetic flux to the center, more than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ramesh Narayan , Jonathan C. McKinney

We present analytic calculations of angular momentum transport and gas inflow in galaxies, from scales of ~kpc to deep in the potential of a central black hole (BH). We compare these analytic calculations to numerical simulations and use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert

(Abridged) We present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of slowly rotating gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole and is irradiated by a thin UV accretion disc and a spherical X-ray corona. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga

We present general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of super-Eddington accretion flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) which may apply to tidal disruption events (TDEs). We perform long duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Brandon Curd , Razieh Emami , Richard Anantua , Daniel Palumbo , Sheperd Doeleman , Ramesh Narayan

Giant planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can create annulus density gaps around their orbits in the type-II regime, potentially responsible for the ubiquity of annular substructures observed in PPDs. Despite of substantial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yuhiko Aoyama , Xuening Bai

Two-dimensional (axially symmetric) numerical hydrodynamical calculations of accretion flows which cannot cool through emission of radiation are presented. The calculations begin from an equilibrium configuration consisting of a thick torus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James M. Stone , James E. Pringle , Mitchell C. Begelman

We study the long-term evolution of the global structure of axisymmetric accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) at rates substantially higher than the Eddington value ($\dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$), performing two-dimensional hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman , Eliot Quataert , Rolf Kuiper

This is the fourth paper of our series of works studying winds from hot accretion flows around black holes. In the first two papers, we have shown the existence of strong winds in hot accretion flows using hydrodynamical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Ye-fei Yuan , Christopher J. White

We carried out 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic diffusivity on magnetically driven mass accretion and jet formation. We found that (1) when the normalized magnetic diffusivity, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kuwabara , K. Shibata , R. Matsumoto

Absorption lines with high blue-shifted velocities are frequently found in the ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray spectra of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This implies that high-velocity winds/outflows are common in AGNs. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 Xiao-Hong Yang , Kamarjan Ablimit , Qi-Xiu Li

The large-scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk plays an important role in launching jets/outflows. The field may probably be advected inwards by the plasma in the accretion disk from the ambient environment (interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Jiawen Li , Xinwu Cao

Accretion flows around black holes generally result in mass-outflows that exhibit irregular behavior quite often. Using 2D time-dependent hydrodynamical calculations, we show that the mass-outflow is unstable in the cases of thick accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Toru Okuda , Santabrata Das

Binary systems with comparable masses and a surrounding accretion disk can accrete gas through spiral accretion streams penetrating the central cavity formed by tidal interactions. Using three-dimensional Newtonian magnetohydrodynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Elias R. Most , Hai-Yang Wang

We present three-dimensional (3-D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flow around black holes. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige , Kazunari Shibata

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim