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Cold optically thick accretion disks with hot coronae and radial advection have been investigated. Within the framework of $\alpha$-viscosity models, we assume that all the mass accretion and angular momentum transport take place in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xingming Chen

The Active Galatic Nuclei(AGN) disk has been proposed as a potential channel for the merger of binary black holes. The population of massive stars and black holes in AGN disks captured from the nuclei cluster plays a crucial role in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Yihan Wang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Douglas N. C. Lin

Thermal instability is examined for advection-dominated one-temperature accretion disks. We consider axisymmetric perturbations with short wavelength in the radial direction. The viscosity is assumed to be sufficiently small for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shoji Kato , Marek A. Abramowicz , Xingming Chen

Recent observations of changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) hint at a frequency of accretion activity not fully explained by tidal disruption events (TDEs) stemming from relaxation processes in nucleus star clusters (NSCs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Yihan Wang , Douglas N. C. Lin , Bing Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

The response of advection-dominated accretion disks to local disturbances is examined by one-dimensional numerical simulations. It is generally believed that advection-dominated disks are thermally stable. We, however, find that any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Manmoto , M. Takeuchi , S. Mineshige , R. Matsumoto , H. Negoro

We investigate the thermal stability of optically thin, two-temperature, radiative cooling-dominated accretion disks. Our linear analysis shows that the disk is thermally unstable without magnetic fields, which agrees with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiao-Fei Yu , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Ren-Yi Ma , Ju-Fu Lu

Relativistic jets can be produced within the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), leading to distinct thermal emission as they propagate through a dense disk environment. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has often been invoked both in simulations and in interpreting observations for regulating star formation and quenching cooling flows in massive galaxies. AGN activity can, however, also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Rebekka Bieri , Yohan Dubois , Joseph Silk , Gary Mamon , Volker Gaibler

Accretion disk winds are thought to produce many of the characteristic features seen in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). These outflows also represent a natural form of feedback between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Nick Higginbottom , Daniel Proga , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long , James H. Matthews , Stuart A. Sim

We report that moderately eccentric flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), formed via either circumnuclear gas accretion or tidal disruption events, generate eccentricity cascades (from >0.8 to 0.2 outward), explaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Hongping Deng

The model of a geometrically thin gaseous disk in the external gravitational potential is considered. The dinamics of small nonaxisymmetric perturbations in the plane of the accretion disk with dissipative effects is investigated. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Khoperskov , S. S. Khrapov

In some galaxies, the stars orbiting the supermassive black hole take the form of an eccentric nuclear disk, in which every star is on a coherent, apsidally-aligned orbit. The most famous example of an eccentric nuclear disk is the double…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Ann-Marie Madigan , Andrew Halle , Mackenzie Moody , Mike McCourt , Chris Nixon , Heather Werkne

The inter-band lags among the optical broad-band continua of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been intensively explored over the past decade. However, the nature of the lags remains under debate. Here utilizing two distinct scenarios for…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large distances. Here, we explore the direct effects that AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Aura Obreja , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

The actual mechanism(s) powering galactic outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still a matter of debate. At least two physical models have been considered in the literature: wind shocks and radiation pressure on dust. Here we provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian , N. Arakawa

Accretion disk winds are commonly observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN). The winds may be associated with the changing spectral properties of such sources, yet such connections have not been studied in detail so far. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-29 Hagai Netzer

We discuss a model of X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We consider multiple spots which originate on the surface of an accretion disk following intense irradiation by coronal flares. The spots move with the disk around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Czerny , A. Rozanska , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , A. -M. Dumont

Heating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to stabilize cool-core clusters, limiting star formation and cooling flows. We employ radiative magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to model light AGN jet feedback with different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-28 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We numerically model fragmentation of a gravitationally unstable gaseous disc under conditions that may be appropriate for the formation of the young massive stars observed in the central parsec of our Galaxy. In this study, we adopt a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Nayakshin , Jorge Cuadra , Volker Springel

By studying three-dimensional, radiative, global simulations of sub-Eddington, geometrically thin black hole accretion flows we show that thin disks which are dominated by magnetic pressure are stable against thermal instability. Such disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Aleksander Sadowski
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