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The global structure of optically thin advection dominated accretion flows which are composed of two-temperature plasma around black holes is calculated. We adopt the full set of basic equations including the advective energy transport in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Manmoto , S. Mineshige , M. Kusunose

We present the largest 3D Particle-in-Cell shearing-box simulations of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability, for the first time employing the realistic proton-to-electron mass ratio. We investigate the energy partition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Fabio Bacchini , Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Black hole accretion flows can be divided into two broad classes: cold and hot. Cold accretion flows, which consist of cool optically thick gas, are found at relatively high mass accretion rates. Prominent examples are the standard thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Feng Yuan , Ramesh Narayan

Accretion flows having positive specific energy are known to produce outflows and winds which escape to a large distance. According to Two Component Advective Flow (TCAF) model, centrifugal pressure dominated region of the flow just outside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Santanu Mondal , Sandip K Chakrabarti , Dipak Debnath

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

An important parameter in the theory of hot accretion flows around black holes is $\delta$, which describes the fraction of ``viscously'' dissipated energy in the accretion flow that goes directly into heating electrons. For a given mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Fu-Guo Xie , Ramesh Narayan , Feng Yuan

At luminosities below a few percent of Eddington, accreting black holes switch to a hard spectral state which is very different from the soft blackbody-like spectral state that is found at higher luminosities. The hard state is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramesh Narayan

Optically thin accretion plasmas can reach ion temperatures $T_{\rm i} \geq 10^{10}$K and thus trigger nuclear reactions. Using a large nuclear interactions network, we studied the radial evolution of the chemical composition of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Ervin Kafexhiu , Felix Aharonian , Maxim Barkov

It was found that the advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF)+thin disk model calculations can reproduce the observed spectral energy distributions (SED) of the two low luminosity AGN, provided they are accreting at ~0.01-0.03 Eddington…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ya-Di Xu , Xinwu Cao

We perform as the first time hydrodynamic simulations to study the properties of hot accretion flow (HAF) around a neutron star (NS). The energy carried by the HAF will eventually be radiated out at the surface of the NS. The emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 De-Fu Bu , Er-Lin Qiao , Xiao-Hong Yang

By taking into account the effect of toroidal magnetic field and its correspond heating, we determine the thickness of advection-dominated accretion flows. We consider an axisymetric, rotating, steady viscous-resistive, magnetized accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Maryam Samadi , Shahram Abbassi , Mahdi Khajavi

We consider viscous rotating accretion flows in which most of the viscously dissipated energy is stored as entropy rather than being radiated. Such advection-dominated flows may occur when the optical depth is either very small or very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi

We study the two-temperature magnetized advective accretion flow around the Kerr black holes. During accretion, ions are heated up due to viscous dissipation, and when Coulomb coupling becomes effective, they transfer a part of their energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Indu K. Dihingia , Santabrata Das , Geethu Prabhakar , Samir Mandal

A thermal soft X-ray component is often detected in low-level accreting neutron stars (NSs), but is not detected in low-level accreting stellar-mass black holes (BHs). In this paper, we investigate the origin of such a thermal soft X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Erlin Qiao , B. F. Liu

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

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

We construct an analytical black hole accretion disk model that incorporates both magnetic pressure and disk wind, which are found to be important from numerical simulations. A saturated magnetic pressure that relates the Alfven velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-11 Jiahui Huang , Hua Feng , Wei-Min Gu , Wen-Biao Wu

In systems accreting well below the Eddington rate, the plasma in the innermost regions of the disk is collisionless and two-temperature, with the ions hotter than the electrons. Yet, whether a collisionless faster-than-Coulomb energy…

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

The plasma in low-luminosity accretion flows, such as the one around the black hole at the center of M87 or Sgr A* at our Galactic Center, is expected to be collisioness and two-temperature, with protons hotter than electrons. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 Michael E. Rowan , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

We study the accretion flow of a hot gas captured by the black hole gravity in the presence of a thin cold accretion disk. Such geometrical arrangement is expected in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and in galactic X-ray binary systems because…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Nayakshin