English
Related papers

Related papers: Self-Limited Accretion onto Embedded Binaries in a…

200 papers

Binary stars often move through an ambient medium from which they accrete material and angular momentum, as in triple-star systems, star-forming clouds, young globular clusters and in the centres of galaxies. A binary form of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 T. A. F. Comerford , R. G. Izzard , R. A. Booth , G. Rosotti

Linear analysis of gas flows around orbiting binaries suggests that a centrifugal barrier ought to clear a low-density cavity around the binary and inhibit mass transfer onto it. Modern hydrodynamics simulations have confirmed the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Christopher Tiede , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

Steady state, spherically symmetric accretion flows are well understood in terms of the Bondi solution. Spherical symmetry however, is necessarily an idealized approximation to reality. Here we explore the consequences of deviations away…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Alejandro Aguayo-Ortiz , Emilio Tejeda , X. Hernandez

We develop a model for supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) accreting below their Eddington limit, focusing on systems where hot, advection-dominated flows become viable. We specifically explore the spectral appearance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Christopher Tiede , Daniel J. D'Orazio

This paper presents a study of quasi-steady spherical accretion in the early Universe, before the formation of the first stars and galaxies. The main motivation is to derive the basic formulas that will be used in a companion paper to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Massimo Ricotti

A supermassive black hole in the nucleus of an elliptical galaxy at the centre of a cool-core group or cluster of galaxies is immersed in hot gas. Bondi accretion should occur at a rate determined by the properties of the gas at the Bondi…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ramesh Narayan , Andrew C. Fabian

We investigate the accretion onto luminous bodies with hard surfaces within the framework of newtonian theory. The accreting gases are assumed to be polytropes and their selfgravitation is included. A remarkable feature of the model is that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Edward Malec , Krzysztof Roszkowski

We study the adiabatic accretion process of ordinary baryonic gas onto spherically symmetric black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory, with two parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ in the coupling term. Especially, we demonstrate the range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Haiyuan Feng , Miao Li , Gui-Rong Liang , Rong-Jia Yang

Using high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations, we show that equal-mass binaries accreting from a circumbinary disk evolve toward an orbital eccentricity of $e \simeq 0.45$, unless they are initialized on a nearly circular orbit with $e…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-05 Jonathan Zrake , Christopher Tiede , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

Similarity solutions are found for the adiabatic collapse of density perturbations $\delta M/M \propto r^{-s}$ $(s>0)$ in a flat universe containing collisional gas only. The solutions are obtained for planar, cylindrical, and spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Leonid Chuzhoy , Adi Nusser

A near-equal mass binary black hole can clear a central cavity in a circumbinary accretion disk; however, previous works have revealed accretion streams entering this cavity. Here we use 2D hydrodynamical simulations to study the accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-22 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Zoltán Haiman , Andrew MacFadyen

In this paper, the numerical investigation of a Bondi-Hoyle accretion around a non-rotating black hole in a novel four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is investigated by solving the general relativistic hydrodynamical equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Orhan Donmez

We perform high-resolution, grid-based hydrodynamics simulations of gaseous rings viscously spreading into disks around equal-mass, circular binaries. We find that all systems suppress accretion onto the binary when the gas is relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Betancourt , Andrew MacFadyen , Jonathan Zrake

The classical Bondi model is adopted to study accretion onto the finite luminous region around the central massive black hole (MBH) in an elliptical galaxy. Unlike Bondi (1952), we define the boundary conditions at a certain finite radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 M. Samadi , S. Zangeneh , S. Abbassi

Many galaxies are expected to harbor binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in their centers. Their interaction with the surrounding gas results in accretion and exchange of angular momentum via tidal torques, facilitating binary inspiral.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Roman R. Rafikov

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

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

Tidal torques acting on a gaseous accretion disk around a binary black hole can create a gap in the disk near the orbital radius. At late times, when the binary inspiral timescale due to gravitational wave emission becomes shorter than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

We investigate the general stability of 1D spherically symmetric ionized Bondi accretion onto a massive object in the specific context of accretion onto a young stellar object. We first derive a new analytic expression for a steady state…

We present results from three-dimensional, self-gravitating radiation hydrodynamical models of gas accretion by planetary cores. In some cases, the accretion flow is resolved down to the surface of the solid core -- the first time such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ben A. Ayliffe , Matthew R. Bate