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Hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of hot accretion flow have indicated that there is an inward decreasing of mass accretion rate with decreasing radius. Consequently, we have a flatter density profile ($\rho \propto r^{-p}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-12 Maryam Ghasemnezhad

The structure of the hot downstream region below a radiative accretion shock, such as that of an accreting compact object, may oscillate due to a global thermal instability. The oscillatory behaviour depends on the functional forms of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu

We present analytical solutions for the thermodynamic (temperature, pressure, density, etc.) properties of thin accretion flows in the region within the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole, the first analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Andrew Mummery , Steven Balbus

We study a truncated accretion disk using a well-resolved, semi-global magnetohydrodynamic simulation that is evolved for many dynamical times (6096 inner disk orbits). The spectral properties of hard state black hole binary systems and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 J. Drew Hogg , Christopher S. Reynolds

We carry out numerical simulation of accretion flows around a black hole in presence of both viscous and cooling effects. Instead of using a constant $\alpha$ parameter throughout the simulation grid, we assume that $\alpha$ is maximum on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Kinsuk Giri , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The effect of radial vibrations on the properties of one or two disks confined to a circular trap in contact with a thermal reservoir are investigated. The vibrational amplitudes and energies are assumed to be quantized, with the motions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 James H. Taylor

We present three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations of warped accretion discs in X-ray binary systems. Geometrically thin, optically thick accretion discs are illuminated by a central radiation source. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen B. Foulkes , Carole A. Haswell , James R. Murray

We investigate structure of self-gravitating disks, their fragmentation and evolution of the fragments (the clumps) using both analytic approach and three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations starting from molecular cores. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

It is commonly believed that accretion discs are truncated and their inner regions are described by advection dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) in the hard spectral state of black hole X-ray binaries. However, the increasing occurrence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Yilong Wang , Bifang Liu , Erlin Qiao , Huaqing Cheng

We run three long-timescale general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto non-rotating black holes. Our aim is to achieve steady-state behavior out to large radii and understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , Charles F. Gammie

With a series of numerical simulations, we analyze the thermo-hydrodynamical evolution of circumstellar disks containing Jupiter-size protoplanets. In the framework of the two-dimensional approximation, we consider an energy equation that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Gennaro D'Angelo , Thomas Henning , Willy Kley

We investigate two-temperature accretion flows onto strongly magnetized compact stars. Matter is accreted in the form of an accretion disc upto the disc radius ($r_{\rm d}$), where, the magnetic pressure exceeds both the gas and ram…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Shilpa Sarkar , Kuldeep Singh , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Philippe Laurent

(shortened) We calculate the vertical structure of a local patch of an accretion disk in which heating by dissipation of MRI-driven MHD turbulence is balanced by radiative cooling. Heating, radiative transport, and cooling are computed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shigenobu Hirose , Julian H. Krolik , James M. Stone

We investigate the radial transport of magnetic flux in a thin accretion disc, the turbulence being modelled by effective diffusion coefficients (viscosity and resistivity). Both turbulent diffusion and advection by the accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We investigate the thermal stability of optically thin, two-temperature, radiative cooling-dominated accretion disks. Our linear analysis shows that the disk is thermally unstable without magnetic fields, which agrees with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiao-Fei Yu , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Ren-Yi Ma , Ju-Fu Lu

Radiation pressure dominated accretion discs may have turbulent velocities that exceed the electron thermal velocities. Bulk Comptonization by the turbulence may therefore dominate over thermal Comptonization in determining the emergent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-05 Jason Kaufman

Understanding how accretion proceeds in proto-planetary discs and more generally their dynamics is a crucial issue for explaining the conditions in which planets form. The role that accretion of gas from the surrounding molecular cloud onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Patrick Hennebelle , Geoffroy Lesur , Sébastien Fromang

We calculate the structure of accretion disk around a spinning black hole for accretion rates 0.01 - 10 M_sun/s. The model is fully relativistic and treats accurately the disk microphysics including neutrino emissivity, opacity, electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Wen-xin Chen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We study the axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric, time-dependent hydrodynamics of gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole (SMBH) and the radiation force produced by a radiatively efficient flow accreting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga

The interaction between the accretion disc and its corona plays a critical role in the energy balance and emission mechanisms in astrophysical systems such as active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries. However, the detailed physics of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Lixin Zhang , Li Xue , Jingyi Luo , Chengzhi Li