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The properties of slim accretion disks, while crucial for our understanding of black hole growth, have yet to be studied extensively observationally. We analyze the multi-epoch broad-band spectral energy distribution of the changing-look…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-17 Ruancun Li , Luis C. Ho , Claudio Ricci , Benny Trakhtenbrot

The broad-line region (BLR) disappears in many low-luminosity AGNs, the reason of which is still controversial. The BLRs in AGNs are believed to be associated with the outflows from the accretion disks. Most of the low-luminosity AGNs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Xinwu Cao

The evolution of an accretion disk can be influenced significantly by the deposition of mass and angular momentum by an infalling Bondi-Hoyle wind. Such a mass influx impacts the long-term behavior of the disk by providing additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Heino Falcke , Fulvio Melia

The thickness of a slim disk is determined by the balance between the radiation force and the vertical component of the gravity of the black hole (BH). It was found that vertical gravity increases with the disk height, and it will decrease…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Junjie Feng , Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu , Ren-Yi Ma

Observations of accreting systems often show significant variability (10-20 percent of accretion luminosity) on timescales much longer than expected for the disc regions releasing most of the luminosity. We propose an explicit physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. King , J. E. Pringle , R. G. West , M. Livio

Spherical (nonrotating) accretion flows with small-scale magnetic fields have been investigated using three-dimensional, time-dependent MHD simulations. These simulations have been designed to model high-resolution (quasi) steady accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Igumenshchev

We show that a large-scale, weak magnetic field threading a turbulent accretion disk tends to be advected inward, contrary to previous suggestions that it will be stopped by outward diffusion. The efficient inward transport is a consequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Rothstein , Richard V. E. Lovelace

We present the results of numerical integrations yielding the structure of and meridional flow in axisymmetric thin viscous accretion disk models. The solutions are obtained by simplifying and approximating first the equations, using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Regev , L. Gitalman

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

The magnetically arrested disks (MADs) have attracted much attention in recent years. The formation of MADs are usually attributed to the accumulation of a sufficient amount of dynamically significant poloidal magnetic flux. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Jia-Wen Li , Xinwu Cao

We investigate the effects of a large-scale magnetic field with open field lines on the steady-state structure of a radiation-dominated accretion disk, using self-similarity technique. The disk is supposed to be turbulent and possesses an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi

Quasi-spherical supersonic (Bondi-type) accretion to a star with a dipole magnetic field is investigated using resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations. A systematic study is made of accretion to a non-rotating star, while sample results…

Recently, it was shown that the formation of a photon-trapping surface might not be sufficient to ensure unimpeded super-Eddington (SE) accretion. In light of this finding, here we derive a condition such that sustained and unimpeded SE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Sohan Ghodla , J. J. Eldridge

We have developed a three-dimensional numerical model and applied it to simulate plasma flows in semi-detached binary systems whose accretor possesses a strong intrinsic magnetic field. The model is based on the assumption that the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-26 A. G. Zhilkin , D. V. Bisikalo

We investigate stationary slim accretion disks around Kerr black holes. We construct a new numerical method based on the relaxation technique. We systematically cover the whole parameter space relevant to stellar mass X-ray binaries. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-26 Aleksander Sadowski

We perform non-hydrodynamical 2.5D simulations to study the dynamics of material above accretion disk based on the disk radiation pressure acting on dust. We assume a super-accreting underlying disk with the accretion rate of 10 times the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bożena Czerny , Michal Zajaček

In earlier works we pointed out that the disk's surface layers are non-turbulent and thus highly conducting (or non-diffusive) because the hydrodynamic and/or magnetorotational (MRI) instabilities are suppressed high in the disk where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

The transition of a standard thin disk to a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) is expected to occur, when the accretion rate is close to the critical rate. The radiative efficiencies of accretion flows accreting at rates lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xinwu Cao , Ya-Di Xu

We review basic properties of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and their applications to astrophysical systems ranging from Galactic binary systems to galactic nuclei. A new classification scheme for low-luminosity, X-ray bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Insu Yi

We solve the set of hydrodynamic (HD) equations for optically thin Advection Dominated Accretion Flows (ADAFs) by assuming radially self-similar in spherical coordinate system $ (r, \theta, \phi) $. The disk is considered to be steady state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-12 Fateme Zahra Zeraatgari , Shahram Abbassi