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We study the properties of a low-angular momentum, inviscid, advective accretion flow in a deformed Kerr spacetime under the framework of general theory of relativity. We solve the governing equations that describe the flow motion in terms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Subhankar Patra , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Santabrata Das

Structured jets are recently invoked to explain the complex emission of gamma ray bursts, such as GW 170817. Based on the accretion simulations, the jets are expected to have a structure that is more complex than a simple top-hat. Also, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bestin James , Ishika Palit

The accretion process onto spinning objects in Kerr spacetimes is studied with numerical simulations. Our results show that accretion onto compact objects with Kerr parameter (characterizing the spin) $|a| < M$ and $|a| > M$ is very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-18 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese , Tomohiro Harada , Rohta Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

We investigate two-temperature accretion flows onto strongly magnetized compact stars. Matter is accreted in the form of an accretion disc upto the disc radius ($r_{\rm d}$), where, the magnetic pressure exceeds both the gas and ram…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Shilpa Sarkar , Kuldeep Singh , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Philippe Laurent

We investigate thick accretion structures around Kerr black holes in a swirling background. This stationary and axisymmetric spacetime is composed of a rotating black hole, which is immersed in a rotating background. The swirling background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Kristian Gjorgjieski , Rogério Capobianco

Low cooling plasmas associated with large kinetic energies are likely to be the origin of the kpc-extended and well collimated extra-galactic jets. It is proposed that jets are launched from a layer, governed by a highly diffusive,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Hujeirat , M. Camenzind , M. Livio

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Magnetically arrested accretion flows are thought to fuel some of the supermassive black holes and to power their relativistic jets. We calculate and study a time sequence of linear and circular polarimetric images of numerical, high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Agnieszka Janiuk , Mariefelicia De Laurentis

Classical T Tauri stars are pre-main-sequence objects that undergo simultaneous accretion, wind outflow, and coronal X-ray emission. The impact of plasma on the stellar surface from magnetospheric accretion streams is likely to be a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Steven R. Cranmer

Accretion flows toward black holes can be of a quite different nature, described as an optically thick cool gas flow in a disk for high accretion rates or as a hot coronal optically thin gas flow for low accretion rates, possibly affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 E. Meyer-Hofmeister , B. F. Liu , E. Qiao

X-ray light curves of three X-ray pulsars, SMC X-1, LMC X-4 and Her X-1, folded with their respective super-orbital periods, are shown to be well reproduced by a model in which X-rays from a compact object towards us are periodically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-26 Hajime Inoue

Field-channelled accretion flows occur in a variety of astrophysical objects, including T Tauri stars,magnetic cataclysmic variables and X-ray pulsars. We consider a curvilinear coordinate system and derive a general hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joao B. G. Canalle , Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu , Mark Cropper , Gavin Ramsay

X-ray emission associated to accretion onto compact objects displays important levels of photometric and spectroscopic time-variability. When the accretor orbits a Supergiant star, it captures a fraction of the supersonic radiatively-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-31 Ileyk El Mellah

We have carried out fully relativistic numerical simulations of accretion disks in the Kerr metric. In this paper we focus on the unbound outflows that emerge self-consistently from the accretion flow. These outflows are found in the axial…

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

We investigate the axially symmetric accretion of low angular momentum hydrodynamic matter onto a rotating black hole. The gravitational field under consideration is assumed to be described by a pseudo-Newtonian Kerr potential. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Kalyanbrata Pal , Souvik Ghose , Shilpa Sarkar , Tapas K. Das

Outflows are common in many astrophysical systems. In the Two Component Advective Flow ({\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont TCAF}) paradigm which is essentially a generalized Bondi flow including rotation, viscosity and cooling effects, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Santanu Mondal , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We explore the global structure of the accretion flow around a Schwarzschild black hole where the accretion disc is threaded by toroidal magnetic fields. The accretion flow is optically thin and advection dominated. Synchrotron radiation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Biplob Sarkar , Santabrata Das

The kilo-Hertz Quasi--Periodic Oscillations in X-ray binaries could originate within the accretion flow, and be a signature of non--linear fluid oscillations and mode coupling in strong gravity. The possibility to decipher these systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 William H. Lee

We use a variety of visualization techniques to display the interior and surface flows in a double white dwarf binary undergoing direct-impact mass transfer and evolving dynamically to a merger. The structure of the flow can be interpreted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Juhan Frank , Alexander Straub , Sagiv Shiber , Parsa Amini , Dominic C. Marcello , Patrick Diehl , Thomas Ertl , Filip Sadlo , Steffen Frey

Ringed accretion disks (RADs) are aggregates of corotating and counterrotating toroidal accretion disks orbiting a central Kerr super-massive Black Hole (SMBH) in AGNs. The dimensionless spin of the central BH and the fluids relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-10 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlik