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Disc winds are a common feature in accreting astrophysical systems on all scales. In active galactic nuclei (AGN) and accreting white dwarfs (AWDs), specifically, radiation pressure mediated by spectral lines is a promising mechanism for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Nick Higginbottom , Nicolas Scepi , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long , James H. Matthews , Stuart A. Sim

Radial transport of particles, elements and fluid driven by internal stresses in three-dimensional (3D) astrophysical accretion disks is an important phenomenon, potentially relevant for the outward dust transport in protoplanetary disks,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Alexander A. Philippov , Roman R. Rafikov

We perform one-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations to solve accretion flows onto massive black holes (BHs) with a very high rate. Assuming that photon trapping limits the luminosity emerging from the central region to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 Yuya Sakurai , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman

The existence of outflow in accretion flows is confirmed by observations and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. In this paper, we study outflows of accretion flows in the presence of resistivity and toroidal magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei , Azam Mollatayefeh

We perform 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of the fallback debris after a tidal disruption event. We focus on studying the effects of magnetic fields on the formation and early evolution of the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Maria Renee Meza , Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

We use global three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the properties of inner regions of accretion disks around a 5\times 10^8 solar mass black hole with mass accretion rates reaching 7% and 20% of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Yan-Fei Jiang , Omer Blaes , James Stone , Shane W. Davis

The acceleration of an outflow along inclined magnetic field lines emanating from an accretion disc can be studied in the local approximation, as employed in the computational model known as the shearing box. By including the slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gordon I. Ogilvie

In order to study the outflows from accretion disks, we solve the set of hydrodynamic equations for accretion disks in the spherical coordinates ($r\theta\phi$) to obtain the explicit structure along the $\theta$ direction. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-25 Cheng-Liang Jiao , Xue-Bing Wu

We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, in a pseudo-Newtonian potential, to study geometrically thin accretion disc flows crossing the marginally stable circular orbit around black holes. We concentrate on vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Philip J. Armitage , Christopher S. Reynolds , James Chiang

It is widely accepted that quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by accretion of matter onto a central supermassive black hole. While numerical simulations have demonstrated the importance of magnetic fields in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter B. Dobbie , Zdenka Kuncic , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raquel Salmeron

By taking into account photon absorption, we investigate the vertical structure of accretion flows with comparable radiation and gas pressures. We consider two separate energy equations for matter and radiation in the diffusion limit. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-10 Maryam Samadi , Shahram Abbassi , Wei-Min Gu

We run two GRRMHD simulations of super-Eddington accretion disks around a black hole and a non-magnetized, non-rotating neutron star. The neutron star was modeled using a reflective inner boundary condition. We observe the formation of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 David Abarca , Włodek Kluźniak , Aleksander Sądowski

When gas accretes onto a black hole, at a rate either much less than or much greater than the Eddington rate, it is likely to do so in an "adiabatic" or radiatively inefficient manner. Under fluid (as opposed to MHD) conditions, the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roger D. Blandford , Mitchell C. Begelman

Spectral properties of super-Eddington accretion flows are investigated by means of a parallel line-of-sight calculation. The subjacent model, taken from two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations by Ohsuga et al. (2005), consists…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Heinzeller , S. Mineshige , K. Ohsuga

We examine highly super-Eddington black-hole models for SS 433, based on two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations coupled with radiation transport. The super-Eddington accretion flow with a small viscosity parameter, $\alpha = 10^{-3}$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Toru Okuda

Grid-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have proven invaluable for the study of astrophysical accretion disks. However, the fact that angular momentum transport in disks is mediated by MHD turbulence (with structure down to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kareem A. Sorathia , Christopher S. Reynolds , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

Standard accretion disk theory is formulated which is based on the local heat balance. The energy produced by a turbulent viscous heating is supposed to be emitted to the sides of the disc. Sources of turbulence in the accretion disc are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

A spinning black hole accreting from a disk of strongly magnetized plasma via a magnetically arrested disk is known to produce an efficient electromagnetic jet powered by the black hole's spin energy. We present general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Angelo Ricarte , Ramesh Narayan , Brandon Curd

The quasi-steady structure of super-critical accretion flows around a black hole is studied based on the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical (2D-RHD) simulations. The super-critical flow is composed of two parts: the disk region and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ohsuga , M. Mori , T. Nakamoto , S. Mineshige

In this paper we report on recent upgrades to our general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++, including the development of a new primitive inversion scheme and a hybrid implicit-explicit solver with a more general…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chris Fragile , Ally Olejar , Peter Anninos