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In this study, we investigate the effect of resistivity on the dynamics of global magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows (Res-MHD) around a spinning supermassive black hole. We perform a comparative study of 2D and 3D resistive models around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

We present the results of global three dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion flows. We focus on the dependence of numerical results on the gas temperature Tout supplied from the outer region. General…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

This is the first in a series of papers that investigate the properties of accretion flows in the Kerr metric through three-dimensional, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of tori with a near-Keplerian initial angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Pierre De Villiers , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

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 present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

We present the results of three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of black hole accretion flows. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. Initial state is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

We present three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of selfgravitating, thick accretion discs around hyperaccreting stellar-mass black holes. The black hole-torus systems are considered to be remnants of compact object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Setiawan , M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of accretion disks threaded by a weak vertical magnetic field, with a particular focus on the interplay between MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Sebastien Fromang , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We briefly review recent developments in black hole accretion disk theory, placing new emphasis on the vital role played by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stresses in transporting angular momentum. The apparent universality of accretion-related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zdenka Kuncic , Geoffrey V. Bicknell

We study the effects of outflow/wind on the gravitational stability of accretion discs around supermassive black holes using a set of analytical steady-state solutions. Mass-loss rate by the outflow from the disc is assumed to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Fazeleh Khajenabi

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

We present simulations of thin accretion disks around black holes investigating a mean-field disk dynamo in our resistive GRMHD code (Vourellis et al. 2019) that is able to produce a large scale magnetic flux. We consider a weak seed field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Christos Vourellis , Christian Fendt

Discerning the likelihood of the so-called runaway instability of thick accretion disks orbiting black holes is an important issue for most models of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. To this aim we investigate this phenomenon by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Font , Frederic Daigne

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

There is a broad consensus that accretion onto supermassive black holes and consequent jet formation power the observed emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, there has been less agreement about how jets form in accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Shane W. Davis , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The conventional accretion disk lore is that magnetized turbulence is the principal angular momentum transport process that drives accretion. However, when dynamically important large-scale magnetic fields thread an accretion disk, they can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Vikram Manikantan , Nicholas Kaaz , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Gibwa Musoke , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We compute a series of three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows in the Kerr metric to investigate the properties of the unbound outflows that result. The overall strength of these outflows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present global, 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-04 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Xinyu Li , Bart Ripperda , Huan Yang

Black holes accreting well below the Eddington rate are believed to have geometrically thick, optically thin, rotationally supported accretion discs in which the Coulomb mean free path is large compared to $GM/c^2$. In such an environment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Francois Foucart , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

We investigate how magnetically driven outflows are powered by a rotating, weakly magnetized accretion flow onto a supermassive black hole using axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Our proposed model focuses on the accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Shinsuke Takasao , Yuri Shuto , Keiichi Wada