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The study of Magnetically Arrested Disks (MAD) attract strong interest in recent years, as these disk configurations were found to generate strong jets as observed in many accreting systems. Here, we present the results of 14 general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 G. -Q. Zhang , D. Bégué , A. Pe'er , B. -B. Zhang

Magnetically-arrested disks (MADs) appear when accretion flows are supplied with a sufficient amount of magnetic flux. In this work, we use results of magnetohydrodynamic simulations to set the configuration of the magnetic field and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Fu-Guo Xie , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

A model for 3:2 high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) with 3:2 pairs observed in four black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is proposed by invoking the epicyclic resonances with the magnetic connection (MC) between a spinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Chang-Yin Huang , Yong-Chun Ye , Ding-Xiong Wang , Yang Li

When the matter from a companion star is accreted towards the central compact accretor, i.e. a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS), an accretion disc and a jet outflow will form, providing bight X-ray and radio emission, which is known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-21 Pei-Xin Shen , Wei-Min Gu

To understand the decaying phase of outbursts in the black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs), we performed very long general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a geometrically thin accretion disk around a Kerr BH with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-29 I. K. Dihingia , Y. Mizuno , P. Sharma

We present calculations of non-LTE, relativistic accretion disk models applicable to the high/soft state of black hole X-ray binaries. We include the effects of thermal Comptonization and bound-free and free-free opacities of all abundant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shane W. Davis , Omer M. Blaes , Ivan Hubeny , Neal J. Turner

Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are the low-frequency QPOs most commonly observed during the hard spectral state of X-ray binary systems. The leading model for these QPOs is the Lense-Thirring precession of a hot, geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 D. A. Bollimpalli , P. C. Fragile , W. Kluźniak

It has long been speculated that the nature of the hard X-ray corona may be an important second driver of black hole state transitions, in addition to the mass accretion rate through the disk. However, a clear physical picture of coronal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 R. C. Reis , J. M. Miller , M. T. Reynolds , A. C. Fabian , D. J. Walton , E. Cackett , J. F. Steiner

Trapped inertial oscillations (r-modes) provide a promising explanation for high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) observed in the emission from black hole X-ray binary systems. An eccentricity (or warp) can excite r-modes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-07 Janosz W. Dewberry , Henrik N. Latter , Gordon I. Ogilvie , Sebastien Fromang

In our study, we examine a 2D radiation, relativistic, magnetohydrodynamics (Rad-RMHD) accretion flows around a spinning supermassive black hole. We begin by setting an initial equilibrium torus around the black hole, with an embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-18 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

We suggest a possible explanation for the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole low mass X-ray binaries. By solving the perturbation general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations, we find two stable modes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Chang-Sheng Shi , Xiang-Dong Li

Black hole (BH) spin can play an important role in galaxy evolution by controlling the amount of energy and momentum ejected from near the BH into the surroundings. We focus on radiatively-inefficient and geometrically-thick…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Beverly Lowell , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Alex Duncan

X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a characteristic feature of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These oscillations have been studied for decades and revealed a rich and complex phenomenology that is still not fully understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 F. M. Vincentelli , N. Bollemeijer , A. Veledina , D. Altamirano , Q. Bu , F. Carotenuto , P. Casella , Y. Cavecchi , R. Ma , G. Marcel , G. Mastroserio , S. Motta , L. Zhang

Recurring outbursts associated with matter flowing onto compact stellar remnants (black-holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs) in close binary systems, provide strong test beds for constraining the poorly understood accretion process. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 B. E. Tetarenko , J. -P. Lasota , C. O. Heinke , G. Dubus , G. R. Sivakoff

We present a unified semi-quantitative model for the disc-jet coupling in black hole X-ray binary systems. We argue that during the rising phase of a black hole transient outburst the steady jet known to be associated with the canonical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Fender , T. M. Belloni , E. Gallo

The high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray emission of black hole binaries and candidates are briefly examined with respect to the question of X-ray states. We use the prescription of McClintock and Remillard (2005), in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Remillard

Accreting stellar mass black holes (BHs) routinely exhibit Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). These are often interpreted as Lense-Thirring precession of the inner accretion flow, a relativistic effect whereby the spin of the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Matthew Middleton , Diego Altamirano , Phil Uttley

Observations of accreting black hole (BH) systems, such as microquasars and supermassive black holes, often reveal a precessing jet with changing directions, indicating a misaligned accretion flow relative to the BH spin. The precession is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Dong Lai , Indu K. Dihingia , Christian M. Fromm

Observational constraints on the configuration of the black hole (BH)-accretion disk-jet system are crucial to understanding BH spin, accretion disk physics, and jet formation. The recently reported variation in the M87 jet position angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yuzhu Cui , Weikang Lin

A model of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is proposed based on the perturbed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of accretion disk. It turns out that the LFQPOs frequencies of some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhi-Yun Wang , Chang-Yin Huang , Ding-Xiong Wang , Jiu-Zhou Wang