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Gas falling into a black hole (BH) from large distances is unaware of BH spin direction, and misalignment between the accretion disc and BH spin is expected to be common. However, the physics of tilted discs (e.g., angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 Matthew Liska , Casper Hesp , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Sera Markoff

Turbulent magnetic diffusivity plays an important role for accretion disks and the launching of disk winds. We have implemented magnetic diffusivity, respective resistivity in the general relativistic MHD code HARM. This paper describes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Qian Qian , Christian Fendt , Scott Noble , Matteo Bugli

Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-11 Margherita Giustini , Daniel Proga

With the fundamental stress mechanism of accretion disks identified--correlated MHD turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability--it has become possible to make numerical simulations of accretion disk dynamics based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 J. H. Krolik

By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

We theoretically investigate the magnetic flux transport in geometrically thick accretion discs which may form around black holes. We utilize a two-dimensional (2D) kinematic mean-field model for poloidal field transport which is governed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Ryoya Yamamoto , Shinsuke Takasao

We use a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a geometrically thin accretion disk to investigate the locality and detailed structure of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). The model disk has an aspect ratio $H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

Astrophysical accretion is arguably the most prevalent physical process in the Universe; it occurs during the birth and death of individual stars and plays a pivotal role in the evolution of entire galaxies. Accretion onto a black hole, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-09 Peter B. Dobbie , Zdenka Kuncic , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raquel Salmeron

We have carried out and analyzed a set of axisymmetric MHD simulations of the evolution of a turbulent/diffusive accretion disc around an initially unmagnetized star. The disc is initially threaded by a weak magnetic field where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Dyda , R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , P. S. Lii , M. M. Romanova , A. V. Koldoba

The existence of outflow and magnetic field in the inner region of hot accretion flows have been confirmed by observations and numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations (MHD). We present self-similar solutions for radiation inefficiently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Abbassi , A. Mosallanezhad

We present the first-ever simulations of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stellar magnetospheric winds coupled with disc-driven jets where the resistive and viscous accretion disc is self-consistently described. These innovative MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 Z. Meliani , F. Casse , C. Sauty

In this paper we consider the process of alignment of a spinning black hole and a surrounding misaligned accretion disc. We use a simplified set of equations, that describe the evolution of the system in the case where the propagation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Lodato , J. E. Pringle

We present 3D adaptive mesh refinement MHD simulations of an isolated galaxy cluster that include injection of kinetic, thermal, and magnetic energy via a central active galactic nucleus (AGN) in order to study and evaluate the role that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. M. Sutter , H. -Y. Yang , P. M. Ricker , G. Foreman , D. Pugmire

We use results from simulations of the production of magnetohydrodynamic jets around black holes to derive the cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes. We assume that the efficiency of jet production is a monotonic function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alejo Martinez-Sansigre , Steve Rawlings

We characterize magnetically driven accretion at radii between 1 au and 100 au in protoplanetary discs, using a series of local non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The simulations assume a Minimum Mass Solar Nebula (MMSN) disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Jacob B. Simon , Geoffroy Lesur , Matthew W. Kunz , Philip J. Armitage

Magnetorotational turbulence provides a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in accretion disks. We present global, three dimensional (3D), MHD accretion disk simulations that investigate the dependence of the turbulent stresses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 E. R. Parkin , G. V. Bicknell

We study the spin dependence of accretion onto rotating Kerr black holes using analytic techniques. In its linear regime, angular momentum transport in MHD turbulent accretion flow involves the generation of radial magnetic field connecting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-09 David Garofalo

We present the results of a new series of global 3D relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of thin accretion disks around spinning black holes. The disks have aspect ratios of $H/R\sim 0.05$ and spin parameters $a/M=0, 0.5,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik , Scott C. Noble

We perform three-dimensional radiation-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (3D Rad-RMHD) simulations of accretion flows around spinning active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our study focuses on the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, adopting a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

Using high resolution hydrodynamical simulations, we explore the spin evolution of massive dual black holes orbiting inside a circumnuclear disc, relic of a gas-rich galaxy merger. The black holes spiral inwards from initially eccentric co…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Dotti , M. Volonteri , A. Perego , M. Colpi , M. Ruszkowski , F. Haardt