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We report a discovery of extended counterrotating gaseous disks in early-type disk galaxies NGC 2551 and NGC 5631. To find them, we have undertaken complex spectral observations including integral-field spectroscopy for the central parts of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 O. K. Sil'chenko , A. V. Moiseev , V. L. Afanasiev

Many models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) involve accretion onto a compact object, usually a black hole, at a mass accretion rate of order a fraction of a solar mass per second. If the accretion disk is larger than a few tens or hundreds of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ramesh Narayan , Tsvi Piran , Pawan Kumar

With the help of high-resolution long-slit and integral-field spectroscopy observations, the number of confirmed cases of galaxies with counterrotation is increasing rapidly. The evolution of such counterrotating galaxies remains far from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Sergey Khoperskov , Giuseppe Bertin

In this paper, we present the time evolution of a rotationally axisymmetric gas ring around a non rotating black hole using two dimensional grid-based hydrodynamic simulation. We show the way in which angular momentum transport is included…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-18 Kinsuk Giri , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

We consider an extreme case of disc accretion onto a gravitating centre when the viscosity in the disc is negligible. The angular momentum and the rotational energy of the accreted matter is carried out by a magnetized wind outflowing from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Sergei Bogovalov , Stanislav Kelner

Accretion disks around black holes in which the shear stress is proportional to the total pressure, the accretion rate is more than a small fraction of Eddington, and the matter is distributed smoothly are both thermally and viscously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. H. Krolik

Based on theoretical arguments and quasi-stationary radiative MHD calculations, a model for an accretion-powered jet is presented. It is argued that accretion disks around BHs consist of 1) a cold, Keplerian-rotating and weakly magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Hujeirat , M. Livio , M. Camenzind , A. Burkert

We revisit the vertical structure of black hole accretion disks in spherical coordinates. By comparing the advective cooling with the viscous heating, we show that advection-dominated disks are geometrically thick, i.e., with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Wei-Min Gu , Li Xue , Tong Liu , Ju-Fu Lu

Like their lower mass siblings, massive protostars can be expected to: a) be surrounded by circumstellar disks and b) launch magnetically-driven jets and outflows. The disk formation and global evolution is thereby controlled by advection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 André Oliva , Rolf Kuiper

Circumplanetary disks can be found around forming giant planets, regardless of whether core accretion or gravitational instability built the planet. We carried out state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of the circumplanetary disks for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Szulágyi , L. Mayer , T. Quinn

The role of accretion disks in the formation of low-mass stars has been well assessed by means of high angular resolution observations at various wavelengths. These findings confirm the prediction that conservation of angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Maria T. Beltrán , Qizhou Zhang , Víctor M. Rivilla

We describe astrophysical processes around a black hole keeping primarily the physics of accretion in mind. In Section 1, we briefly discuss the formation, evolution and detection of black holes. We also discuss the difference of flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The paper investigates the influence of accretion heating and turbulent heat conduction on the equilibrium of protoplanetary disks, extending the 2D axis-symmetric passive disk model of Flock (Flock et al. 2016, ApJ 827, 144). The model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 B. N. Schobert , A. G. Peeters , F. Rath

We compute mass outflow rates from advective accretion disks around compact objects, such as neutron stars and black holes. These computations, for the first time, are done using combinations of exact transonic inflow and outflow solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Galactic nuclei should contain a cluster of stars and compact objects in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole due to stellar evolution, minor mergers and gravitational dynamical friction. By analogy with protoplanetary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. McKernan , K. E. S. Ford , W. Lyra , H. B. Perets , L. M. Winter , T. Yaqoob

Disk galaxies are in hydrostatic equilibrium along their vertical axis. The pressure allowing for this configuration consists of thermal, turbulent, magnetic and cosmic ray components. For the Milky Way(MW) the thermal pressure contributes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuval Birnboim

We investigate the dynamical interaction of a central star cluster surrounding a super-massive black hole and a central accretion disk. The dissipative force acting on stars in the disk leads to an enhanced mass flow towards the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andreas Just , Denis Yurin , Maxim Makukov , Peter Berczik , Chingis Omarov , Rainer Spurzem , Emanuel Y. Vilkoviskij

Models of black hole accretion disks are reviewed, with an emphasis on the theory of hard X-ray production. The following models are considered: i) standard, ii) super-critical, iii) two-temperature, and iv) disk+corona. New developments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Massive stars can form within or be captured by AGN disks, influencing both the thermal structure and metallicity of the disk environment. In a previous work, we investigated isotropic accretion onto massive stars from a gas-rich,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Yi-Xian Chen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jeremy Goodman

Microlensing by the stellar population of lensing galaxies provides an important opportunity to spatially resolve the accretion disc structure in strongly lensed quasars. Disc sizes estimated this way are on average larger than the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 P. Abolmasov , N. I. Shakura