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The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamical behaviour of hot accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction on hot accretion flow is confirmed by observations of the hot gas that surrounds Sgr A$^*$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei

Thermal conduction has been suggested as a possible mechanism by which sufficient extra heating is provided in radiation-dominated accretion flows. We consider the extreme case in which the generated energy due to the viscosity and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi

Observations of the hot gas surrounding Sgr A* and a few other nearby galactic nuclei imply electron and proton mean free paths comparable to the gas capture radius: hot accretion likely proceeds under weakly-collisional conditions in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristen Menou

We study the effects of anisotropic thermal conduction on magnetized spherical accretion flows using global axisymmetric MHD simulations. In low collisionality plasmas, the Bondi spherical accretion solution is unstable to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

We present self-similar solutions for advection -dominated accretion flows with thermal conduction in the presence of outflows. Possible effects of outflows on the accretion flow are parametrized and a saturated form of thermal conduction,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri

The observation of the hot gas surrounding Sgr $A^*$ and a few other nearby galactic nuclei imply that electron and proton mean free paths are comparable to the gas capture radius. So, the hot accretion flows is likely to proceed under…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 S. Abbassi , J. Ghanbari , S. Najjar

Advection-dominated, high-temperature, quasi-spherical accretion flow onto a compact object, recently considered by a number of authors, assume that the dissipation of turbulent energy of the flow heats the ions and that the dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

We have explored the structure of hot magnetized accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction in hot accretion flows has been confirmed by observations of the hot gas surrounding Sgr $A^*$ and a few other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Ghasemnezhad , M. Khajavi , S. Abbassi

We study the effects of accretion environment (gas density, temperature and angular momentum) at large radii ($\sim 10$pc) on luminosity of hot accretion flows. The radiative feedback effects from the accretion flow on the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu

We investigate radiatively inefficient accretion flow models for Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Center, in light of new observational constraints. Confirmation of linear polarization in the submm emission argues for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Feng Yuan , Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

We examine the effects of thermal conduction on relativistic, magnetized, viscous, advective accretion flows around rotating black holes considering bremsstrahlung and synchrotron cooling processes. Assuming the toroidal component of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Monu Singh , Camelia Jana , Santabrata Das

Matter falling onto black holes is hot, fully ionized and has to be necessarily transonic. Since the electrons are responsible for radiative cooling via processes like synchrotron, bremsstrahlung and inverse-Compton, therefore the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Shilpa Sarkar , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Simple assumptions made regarding electron thermodynamics often limit the extent to which general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations can be applied to observations of low-luminosity accreting black holes. We present,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-15 Sean M. Ressler , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie

In the innermost regions of low-luminosity accretion flows, including Sgr A* at the center of our Galaxy, the frequency of Coulomb collisions is so low that the plasma is two-temperature, with the ions substantially hotter than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Lorenzo Sironi

Steady-state advective accretion flows in the presence of thermal conduction are studied. All three components of velocity in a spherical coordinates are considered and the flow displays both inflowing and outflowing regions according to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Fazeleh Khajenabi , Mohsen Shadmehri

We perform a set of general relativistic, radiative, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations (GR-RMHD) to study the transition from radiatively inefficient to efficient state of accretion on a non-rotating black hole. We study ion to electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Sadowski , M. Gaspari

Plasmas in an accretion flow are heated by MHD turbulence generated through the magneto-rotational instability. The viscous stress driving the accretion is intimately connected to the microscopic processes of turbulence dissipation. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-04 Siming Liu , Christopher L. Fryer , Hui Li

We examine the effect of thermal conduction on the low-angular momentum hot accretion flow (HAF) around non-rotating black holes accreting mass at very low rate. While doing so, we adopt the conductive heat flux in the saturated form, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Samik Mitra , Sayyedeh Masoumeh Ghoreyshi , Amin Mosallanezhad , Shahram Abbassi , Santabrata Das

We examine the effect of thermal conduction on the observational properties of a super critical hot magnetized flow. We obtained self-similar solution of a magnetized disc when the thermal conduction plays an important role. Follow of our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Ghasemnezhad , M. Khajavi , S. Abbassi

Observations of the hot gas, which is surrounding Sgr A* and a few other nearby galactic nuclei, imply that mean free paths of electron and proton are comparable to gas capture radius. So, hot accretion flows likely proceed under week…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Ghanbari , S. Abbassi , M. Ghasemnezhad
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