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Accretion disks in close binary systems are subject to a tidally driven parametric instability which leads to the growth of internal waves near the outer edges of such disks (Goodman 1993). These waves are important in understanding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ethan T. Vishniac , Changsong Zhang

The evolution of an accretion disk, formed as a consequence of the disruption of a star by a black hole, is followed by solving numerically the hydrodynamic equations. The present investigation aims to study the dependence of resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Matias Montesinos , José A. de Freitas Pacheco

We review our current knowledge of thermal and viscous instabilities in accretion discs around compact objects. We begin with classical disc models based on analytic viscosity prescriptions, discussing physical uncertainties and exploring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Omer Blaes , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jean-Pierre Lasota , Galina Lipunova

Tidal disruption events\,(TDEs) provide a valuable probe in studying the dynamics of stars in the nuclear environments of galaxies. Recent observations show that TDEs are strongly overrepresented in post-starburst or "green valley"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-01 Mengye Wang , Yiqiu Ma , Qingwen Wu , Ning Jiang

A star coming too close to a supermassive black hole gets disrupted by the tidal force of the compact object in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Following this encounter, the debris evolves into an elongated stream, half of which coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole, and the subsequent accretion of the disrupted debris by that black hole, offers a direct means to study the inner regions of otherwise-quiescent galaxies. These tidal disruption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-01 Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are believed to be an ideal laboratory for studying the evolution of accretion flow around a supermassive black hole (BH). In general, the mass feeding rate to the BH is suggested to be super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Chenlei Guo , Erlin Qiao

Recent observations of changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) hint at a frequency of accretion activity not fully explained by tidal disruption events (TDEs) stemming from relaxation processes in nucleus star clusters (NSCs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Yihan Wang , Douglas N. C. Lin , Bing Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

A fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) whose black holes possess accretion disks; these TDEs can be confused with common AGN flares. The disruption itself is unaffected by the disk, but the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-24 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik , Dekel Saban

Whether tidal disruption events (TDEs) circularise or accrete directly as a highly eccentric disc is the subject of current research and appears to depend sensitively on the disc thermodynamics. In a previous paper we applied the theory of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Elliot M. Lynch , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) are typically discovered by transient emission due to accretion or shocks of the stellar debris. Yet this luminous flare can be reprocessed by gas or dust that inhabits a galactic nucleus, resulting in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Sjoert van Velzen , Dheeraj R. Pasham , Stefanie Komossa , Lin Yan , Erin A. Kara

Thin viscous Keplerian accretion disks are considered asymptotically stable, even though they can show significant dynamic activity on short timescales. In this paper the dynamics of non-axisymmetric hydrodynamical disturbances of disks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Rebusco , Orkan M. Umurhan , Wlodek Kluzniak , Oded Regev

The discovery of jets from tidal disruption events (TDEs) rejuvenated the old field of relativistic jets powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes. In this Chapter, we first review the extensive multi-wavelength observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Fabio De Colle , Wenbin Lu

Elliptical accretion disk models for tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been recently proposed and independently developed by two groups. Although these two models are characterized by a similar geometry, their physical properties differ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Fukun Liu , Chunyang Cao , Marek A. Abramowicz , Maciek Wielgus , Rong Cao , Zhiqin Zhou

We investigate the linear tidal perturbation of a viscous Keplerian disk by a companion star orbiting in a plane inclined to the disk. We consider m=1 perturbations with odd symmetry with respect to the z=0 midplane. Since the response of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Caroline E. J. M. L. J. Terquem

The stress evolution process is taken into account in the linear stability analysis of standard thin accretion discs. We find that the growth rate of thermally unstable modes can decrease significantly owing to the stress delay, which may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Da-Bin Lin , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

In low-mass disks, turbulent torques are probably the most important way of redistributing angular momentum. Here we present the theory of turbulent accretion disks. We show the molecular viscosity is far too small to account for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Caroline E. J. M. L. J. Terquem

Thermal instability is examined for advection-dominated one-temperature accretion disks. We consider axisymmetric perturbations with short wavelength in the radial direction. The viscosity is assumed to be sufficiently small for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shoji Kato , Marek A. Abramowicz , Xingming Chen

We use numerical stochastic-viscous hydrodynamic simulations and new analytical results from thin disc theory to probe the turbulent variability of accretion flows, as observed at high energies. We show that the act of observing accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-16 Andrew Mummery , Samuel G. D. Turner

Dynamics of linear perturbations in a differentially rotating accretion disk with non-homogeneous vertical structure is investigated. It has been found that turbulent viscosity results in instability of both pinching oscillations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Khoperskov , S. S. Khrapov