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We have explored the structure of hot magnetized accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction in hot accretion flows has been confirmed by observations of the hot gas surrounding Sgr $A^*$ and a few other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Ghasemnezhad , M. Khajavi , S. Abbassi

A toy model for magnetic connection in black hole (BH) accretion disc is discussed based on a poloidal magnetic field generated by a single electric current flowing around a Kerr black hole in the equatorial plane. We discuss the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye , Yang Li , Dong-Mei Liu

A toy model of a disk undergoing steady state accretion onto a black hole is presented. The disk is in a hydrostatic equilibrium for all radii r > r_{in}, with the inner disk radius located between the marginally stable and marginally bound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bohdan Paczynski

We analyze the time dependence of fluid variables in general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows onto a black hole with dimensionless spin parameter a/M=0.9. We consider both the case where the angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Ken B. Henisey , Omer M. Blaes , P. Chris Fragile , Bárbara T. Ferreira

Most black holes (BHs) formed in collapsing stars have low spin, though some are expected to acquire a magnetic accretion disk during the collapse. While such BH disks can launch magnetically driven winds, their physics and observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Justin Bopp , Ore Gottlieb

(Abridged) We present one of the first physically-motivated two-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations of a radiatively-cooled black-hole accretion disk. The fiducial simulation combines a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Chris Fragile , David L. Meier

Recent observations and theoretical work on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) favor the central engine model of a Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a magnetized neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). The magnetic coupling between the BH and disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-03 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , L. Zhang , Z. M. Gan , Y. C. Zou , Y. Xie

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, where dynamically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Koushik Chatterjee , Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff

According to the standard thin disc theory, it is predicted that the radiation-pressure-dominated inner region of a thin disc is thermally unstable, while observations suggest that it is common for a thin disc of more than 0.01 Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Yu Zhao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Li Xue , Shuang-Liang Li

We carried out three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the cooling instability in optically thin hot black hole accretion flows by assuming bremsstrahlung cooling. General relativistic effects are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mami Machida , Kenji Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto

This paper, the second of a series on radiation-regulated accretion onto black holes (BHs) from galactic scales, focuses on the effects of radiation pressure and angular momentum of the accreting gas. We simulate accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-13 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

A toy model for magnetic extraction of energy from black hole (BH) accretion disk is discussed by considering the restriction of the screw instability to the magnetic field configuration. Three mechanisms of extracting energy magnetically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye , Ren-Yi Ma

We present steady-state solutions for a one-dimensional, magnetically-driven accretion disk wind model based on magnetohydrodynamic equations. We assume a geometrically thin, gas-pressure-dominated accretion disk, incorporating both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Mageshwaran Tamilan , Kimitake Hayasaki , Takeru K. Suzuki

When the accretion rate is more than a small fraction of Eddington, the inner regions of accretion disks around black holes are expected to be radiation-dominated. However, in the alpha-model, these regions are also expected to be thermally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Shigenobu Hirose , Julian H. Krolik , Omer Blaes

Numerical simulations of black hole hot accretion flows have shown the existence of strong wind. Those works focus only on the region close to black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-Hong Yang

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

Turbulence in an accretion disk launches Alfv\'en waves (AWs) that propagate away from the disk along magnetic field lines. Because the Alfv\'en speed varies with distance from the disk, the AWs undergo partial non-WKB reflection, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Francois Foucart , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

It is difficult to implement numerical simulations on a region extending from the vicinity of a black hole to the Bondi radius. Most previous numerical simulations have primarily concentrated on the region close to the black hole. They…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Mu-Qing Liu , Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu

Numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence makes it possible to study accretion dynamics in detail. However, special effort is required to connect inflow dynamics (dependent largely on angular momentum transport) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

We present three-dimensional MHD simulations of rotating radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes. In the simulations, we continuously inject magnetized matter into the computational domain near the outer boundary, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan , Marek A. Abramowicz
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