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We present models of the soft X-ray transients, A0620-00, V404 Cyg, and X-ray Nova Mus 1991, in quiescence. In each source, we postulate that there is an outer region, extending outward from about 3000 Schwarzschild radii, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock , Insu Yi

Geometrically thick disks may form after tidal disruption events, and rapid accretion may lead to short flares followed by long-term, lower-level emission. Using a novel accretion disk code which relies primarily on global conservation laws…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Ulmer

We model non-thermal emission spectrum of the extremely sub-Eddington X-ray binary system A0620-00. It is believed that this non-thermal emission is produced by a radiatively inefficient "quiescent" accretion onto a stellar-mass black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Monika Moscibrodzka

Massive stars can form within or be captured by AGN disks, influencing both the thermal structure and metallicity of the disk environment. In a previous work, we investigated isotropic accretion onto massive stars from a gas-rich,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Yi-Xian Chen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jeremy Goodman

We performed two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations of supercritical accretion flows around neutron stars (NSs). In contrast with the accretion flows onto black holes (BHs), we find that the shell-shaped high-density regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ken Ohsuga

We extend our models of the vertical structure and emergent radiation field of accretion disks around supermassive black holes described in previous papers of this series. Our models now include both a self-consistent treatment of Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ivan Hubeny , Omer Blaes , Julian H. Krolik , E. Agol

It is widely believed that super-Eddington accretion flow can produce powerful outflow, but where it originates from and how much mass and energy are carried away to which directions? To answer to these questions, we newly perform a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Takaaki Kitaki , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima

Two component X-ray spectra (soft multicolor black body plus harder power law) are frequently observed from accreting black holes. These components are presumably associated with the different parts of the accretion flow (optically thick…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , M. Revnivtsev

We present global solutions of optically thin, two-temperature black hole accretion disks incorporating magnetic fields. We assume that the {\pi}{\phi}-component of the Maxwell stress is proportional to the total pressure, and prescribe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Hiroshi Oda , Mami Machida , Kenji E. Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto , Ramesh Narayan

We have calculated the structures and the emergent spectra of stationary, geometrically thin accretion disks around 100 and 1000 M_sun black holes in both the Schwarzschild and extreme Kerr metrics. Equations of radiative transfer,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Hui , J. H. Krolik , I. Hubeny

(Abridged) We study stability of gas accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei. Our grid based simulations cover a radial range from 0.1 to 200 pc. Here, as in previous studies by our group, we include gas radiative cooling as well as heating by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Moscibrodzka , D. Proga

We find a new two-temperature hot branch of equilibrium solutions for stationary accretion disks around black holes. In units of Eddington accretion rate defined as $10L_{\rm Edd}/c^2$, the accretion rates to which these solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Feng Yuan

Close to a black hole, the density of the sub-Keplerian accreting matter becomes higher compared to a spherical flow due to the presence of a centrifugal barrier independent of whether or not a standing shock actually forms. This hot dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We wish to investigate the effects of cooling of the Compton cloud on the outflow formation rate in an accretion disk around a black hole. We carry out a time dependent numerical simulation where both the hydrodynamics and the radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-15 Sudip K. Garain , Himadri Ghosh , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

In the past years, several observations of AGN and X-ray binaries have suggested the existence of a warm T around 0.5-1 keV and optically thick, \tau ~ 10-20, corona covering the inner parts of the accretion disk. These properties are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-05 A. Rozanska , J. Malzac , R. Belmont , B. Czerny , P. -O. Petrucci

We consider the X-ray emission due to bremsstrahlung processes from hot, low radiative-efficiency accretion flows around supermassive and galactic black holes. We calculate surface brightness profiles and Michelson visibility functions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Feryal Ozel , Tiziana Di Matteo

We present a detailed multi-wavelength study of an unobscured, highly super-Eddington Type-1 QSO RX J0439.6-5311. We combine the latest XMM-Newton observation with all archival data from infrared to hard X-rays. The optical spectrum is very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Martin Ward , Emma Gardner

We discuss the expected X-ray spectral and variability properties of black hole accretion discs at high luminosity, under the hypothesis that radiation pressure dominated discs are subject to violent clumping instabilities and, as a result,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 A. Merloni , J. Malzac , A. C. Fabian , R. R. Ross

Motivated by recent discoveries of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions, we revisit the collision of a black hole and an accretion disk. Assuming that they are orbiting a supermassive black hole in orthogonal orbits, we perform a general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-25 Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Masaru Shibata , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Joaquin Pelle

We analyze the consequences of the hypothesis that the formation of the Broad Line Region is intrinsically connected with the existence of the cold accretion disk. We assume that the Broad Line Region radius is well estimated by the formula…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Czerny , A. Rozanska , J. Kuraszkiewicz