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We present the implementation of an implicit-explicit (IMEX) Runge-Kutta numerical scheme for general relativistic hydrodynamics coupled to an optically thick radiation field in two existing GR-hydrodynamics codes. We argue that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Constanze Roedig , Olindo Zanotti , Daniela Alic

Accretion in black hole X-ray binaries is commonly believed to be supplied by the Roche lobe overflow or the stellar wind. The former is thought to form a geometrically thin disc while the diffuse wind could form a geometrically thick hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Yilong Wang , B. F. Liu , Mingjun Liu

We explore the effect of anisotropic wind driving on the properties of accretion onto black holes in close binaries. We specifically focus on line-driven winds, which are common in high-mass X-ray binaries. In close binary systems, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Ryosuke Hirai , Ilya Mandel

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A* that are initialized using larger-scale MHD simulations of the $\sim$ 30 Wolf--Rayet (WR) stellar winds in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Sean M. Ressler , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

Spectral and kinematic studies suggest that the nonthermal radio source Sgr A*, located at the center of the Milky Way, is a supermassive compact object with a mass 2-3 million solar masses. Winds from nearby stars, located approximately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert F. Coker , F. Melia

We append two additional black hole (BH) accretion models, namely viscous disc and gravitational torque-driven accretion, into the Numerical Investigation of a Hundred Astrophysical Objects (NIHAO) project of galaxy simulations. We show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Nadine H. Soliman , Andrea V. Macciò , Marvin Blank

The recent advanced LIGO/Virgo detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from stellar binary black hole (BBH) mergers, in particular GW190521, which is potentially associated with a quasar, have stimulated renewed interest in active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Jian-Min Wang , Jun-Rong Liu , Luis C. Ho , Yan-Rong Li , Pu Du

The galactic black hole binary systems give an observational template showing how the accretion flow changes as a function of increasing mass accretion rate, or L/L_Edd. These data can be synthetised with theoretical models of the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris Done , Marek Gierlinski

In this study, we investigate the accretion dynamics and test particle motion around a non-rotating, spherically symmetric Lee-Wick black hole (BH) to reveal how the model parameters affect orbital stability and the quasi-periodic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Orhan Donmez , G. Mustafa , M. Yousaf , Faisal Javed , Ikhtiyor Saidov , Farruh Atamurotov

Observational evidence and many numerical simulations show the existence of wind (i.e., uncollimated outflow) in accretion systems of the elliptical galaxy center. One of the primary aims of this study is to investigate the solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-23 Razieh Ranjbar , Shahram Abbassi

We study low-density axisymmetric accretion flows onto black holes (BHs) with two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, adopting the $\alpha$-viscosity prescription. When the gas angular momentum is low enough to form a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-18 Kohei Inayoshi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Zoltan Haiman , Rolf Kuiper

We report on simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks onto black hole binaries. We vary the binary mass ratio from 1:1 to 1:10 and evolve the systems when they orbit near the binary-disk decoupling radius. We compare (surface)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro , Harald P. Pfeiffer

LB-1 is a binary system that has drawn great attention since its discovery in 2019. The nature of the two components of LB-1 is not very clear, which however is suggested very possibly to be a B-type star plus a black hole (BH). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-14 Tong Su , Erlin Qiao , Song Wang

Accurate modeling of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, especially due to relativistic jets, is crucial for understanding the cool-core problem in galaxy clusters. We present a new subgrid method to model accretion onto and feedback…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Ying-He Celeste Lü , Paul M. Ricker

Previous works show strong winds exist in hot accretion flows around black holes. Those works focus only on the region close to the black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-hong Yang

We investigate the anisotropy of stellar winds in binaries to improve the models of accretion in high-mass X-ray binaries. We model numerically the stellar wind from a supergiant component of a binary in radial and three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Petr Hadrava , Jan Čechura

Many astrophysical environments, from star clusters and globular clusters to the disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, are characterized by frequent interactions between stars and the compact objects that they leave behind. Here, using a suite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna , Yihan Wang

If a point mass moves through a uniform gas cloud, at what rate does it accrete material? This is the question studied by Bondi, Hoyle and Lyttleton. This paper draws together the work performed in this area since the problem was first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. G. Edgar

We present a simple physical mechanism that can account for the observed stellar mass spectrum for masses $\ms \simgreat 0.5 \solm$. The model depends solely on the competitive accretion that occurs in stellar clusters where each star's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 I. A. Bonnell , C. J. Clarke , M. R. Bate , J. E. Pringle

To be presented is a study of the secular evolution of a spherical stellar system with a central star-accreting black hole (BH) using the anisotropic gaseous model. This method solves numerically moment equations of the full Fokker-Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Marc Freitag , Rainer Spurzem