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We use a two-temperature hydrodynamical formulation to determine the temperature and density structures of the post-shock accretion flows in magnetic cataclysmic variables (mCVs) and calculate the corresponding X-ray spectra. The effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Curtis Saxton , Kinwah Wu , Mark Cropper , Gavin Ramsay

We present a detailed study of the observable effects of photoionization and Comptonization of line and continuum radiation from a cold accretion disk with a thin, warm, photoionized transition layer in the framework of self-consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Boettcher , E. P. Liang , I. A. Smith

The extent to which angular momentum transport in accretion discs is primarily local or non-local and what determines this is an important avenue of study for understanding accretion engines. Taking a step along this path, we analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Farrukh Nauman , Eric G. Blackman

A set of co-aligned high resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is used to investigate propagating disturbances (PDs) in warm fan loops at the periphery of a non-flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Nicholeen M. Viall , Leon Ofman

We present a set of six general relativistic, multi-frequency, radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin accretion disks with different target mass accretion rates around black holes with spins ranging from non-rotating to rapidly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Nathaniel Roth , Bhupendra Mishra

We solve the two-dimensional hydrodynamic equations of hot accretion flow in the presence of the thermal conduction. The flow is assumed to be in steady-state and axisymmetric, and self-similar approximation is adopted in the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Amin Mosallanezhad , Fatemeh Zahra Zeraatgari , Liquan Mei , De-Fu Bu

I study non-radiative cooling of X-ray emitting gas via heat conduction along magnetic field lines inside magnetic flux loops in cooling flow clusters of galaxies. I find that such heat conduction can reduce the fraction of energy radiated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Noam Soker

We present a three-dimensional simulation of the corona of an FK Com-type rapidly rotating G giant using a magnetohydrodynamic model that was originally developed for the solar corona in order to capture the more realistic, non-potential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap , H. Korhonen , D. Elstner , T. I. Gombosi

In this work we describe our implementation of a thermodynamic energy equation into the global corona model of the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF), and its development into the new Lower Corona (LC) model. This work includes the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Cooper Downs , Ilia I. Roussev , Bart van der Holst , Noé Lugaz , Igor V. Sokolov , Tamas I. Gombosi

In many astrophysical systems, mixing between cool and hot temperature gas/plasma through Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence leads to the formation of an intermediate temperature phase with increased radiative losses that drive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-16 Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow , Inigo Arregui

Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Weixiao Wang , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

Slow dissipation of non-potential magnetic fields in the magnetosphere of the magnetar is assumed to accelerate particles to hundreds MeV along the magnetic field lines. We consider interaction of fast particles with the surface of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-26 Yury Lyubarsky , David Eichler

It is widely accepted that X-ray emission in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) originates from hot corona. To prevent the corona from over-cooling by strong X-ray emission, steady heating to the corona is essential, for which the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 Jie-Ying Liu , Jirong Mao , B. F. Liu

We construct a simple model for a magnetic reconnection heated corona above a thin accretion disk in AGNs and Galactic black hole candidates(GBHCs). The basic assumptions are that (1) the magnetic reconnection heat is cooled down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. F. Liu , S. Mineshige , K. Shibata

We study the effects of magnetic field in the formation of a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) in the presence of Bremsstrahlung cooling, which facilitates the formation of a geometrically thin, optically thick accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Anish Sarkar , Mayukh Pahari

Recent observations with ALMA have revealed evidence for non-thermal synchrotron emission from the core regions of two nearby Seyfert galaxies. This suggests that the coronae of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Dmitry Khangulyan , Susumu Inoue , Akihiro Doi

We present an updated global model of the solar corona, including the transition region. We simulate the realistic tree-dimensional (3D) magnetic field using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements and assume the…

The plasma of the lower solar atmosphere consists of mostly neutral particles, whereas the upper solar atmosphere is mostly ionised particles and electrons. A shock that propagates upwards in the solar atmosphere therefore undergoes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ben Snow , Andrew Hillier

We present a new insight into the propagation, attenuation and dissipation of two-fluid, torsional Alfv\'en waves in the context of heating of the lower solar atmosphere. By means of numerical simulations of the partially-ionized plasma, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 B. Kuźma , K. Murawski , S. Poedts

We present a series of models for the plasma properties along open magnetic flux tubes rooted in solar coronal holes, streamers, and active regions. These models represent the first self-consistent solutions that combine: (1) chromospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven R. Cranmer , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen , Richard J. Edgar