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Radiatively inefficient accretion flow models have been shown to accurately account for the spectrum and luminosity observed from Sgr A* in the X-ray regime down to mm wavelengths. However, observations at a few GHz cannot be explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Ian Christie , Maria Petropoulou , Petar Mimica , Dimitrios Giannios

We discuss two temperature accretion disk flows around rotating black holes. As we know that to explain observed hard X-rays the choice of Keplerian angular momentum profile is not unique, we consider the sub-Keplerian regime of the disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. R. Rajesh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We obtain estimates of Sgr A* accretion flow and black hole parameters by fitting polarized sub-mm observations with spectra computed using three-dimensional (3D) general relativistic (GR) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) (GRMHD) simulations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Robert F. Penna , Jonathan C. McKinney

We investigated the instability of advective accretion flow as a consequence of angular momentum transfer in one-dimensional, quasi-spherical transonic accretion flow around a non-rotating black hole. The code is designed to include the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Seong-Jae Lee , Dongsu Ryu , Indranil Chattopadhyay

The supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*, is unique because the angular size of the black hole is the largest in the sky thus providing detailed boundary conditions on, and much less freedom for, accretion flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Feng Yuan

We present the results from axisymmetric time-dependent HD calculations of gas flows which are under the influence of gravity of a black hole in quasars. We assume that the flows are non-rotating and exposed to quasar radiation. We take…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel Proga

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

We examine the effects of magnetic field on low angular momentum flows with standing shock around black holes in two dimensions. The magnetic field brings change in behavior and location of the shock which results in regularly or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Toru Okuda , Chandra B. Singh , Santabrata Das , Ramiz Aktar , Anuj Nandi , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Multi-scale simulations have made it possible to follow gas inflows onto massive black holes (BHs) from galactic scales to the accretion disk. When sufficient gas is driven towards the BH, gravitational instabilities generically form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Christopher C. Hayward , Desika Narayanan , Lars Hernquist

The extremely hot and tenuous accretion flow in the immediate vicinity of Sgr A* is believed to be invisible (too dim) in the X-ray band, except for short X-ray flares. Here we point out that during pericenter passages, close brightest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei Nayakshin

We study a slightly rotating accretion flow onto a black hole, using the fully three dimensional (3-D)numerical simulations. We consider hydrodynamics of an inviscid flow, assuming a spherically symmetric density distribution at the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Maciej Sznajder , Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga

Sgr A* at the Galactic Center is a puzzling source. It has a mass M=(2.5+/-0.4) x 10^6 solar masses which makes it an excellent black hole candidate. Observations of stellar winds and other gas flows in its vicinity suggest a mass accretion…

Two-dimensional accretion flows near black holes have been investigated by time-dependent hydrodynamical calculations. We assume that the flow is axisymmetric and that radiative losses of internal energy are negligible, so that the disc is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Xingming Chen , Marek A. Abramowicz

We present the results of global three dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion flows. We focus on the dependence of numerical results on the gas temperature Tout supplied from the outer region. General…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

I review radiatively inefficient accretion flow models for the 2.6 million solar mass black hole (BH) in the Galactic Center. I argue for a 'concordance model' of Sgr A*: both theory and observations suggest that hot ambient gas around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eliot Quataert

We study the global solutions of slowly rotating accretion flows around the supermassive black hole in the nucleus of an elliptical galaxy. The velocity of accreted gas surrounding the black hole is initially subsonic and then falls onto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Razieh Ranjbar , Amin Mosallanezhad , Shahram Abbassi

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

Here we study the accretion process around a neutron star, especially for the cases where shock does form in the accretion disk. In case of accretion flows around a black hole, close to the horizon matter is supersonic. On the other hand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We study properties of an accretion ring in a steady mass flow from a companion star to a compact object in an X-ray binary. The accretion ring is a place where matter inflowing from a companion star sojourns for a while to bifurcate to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-17 Hajime Inoue

Sgr A* is extra-ordinarily dim in all wavelengths requiring a very low accretion rate at the present time. However, at a radial distance of a fraction of a parsec from Sgr A*, two rings populated by young massive stars suggest a recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Nayakshin , Jorge Cuadra