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(Abridged) We study stability of gas accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei. Our grid based simulations cover a radial range from 0.1 to 200 pc. Here, as in previous studies by our group, we include gas radiative cooling as well as heating by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Moscibrodzka , D. Proga

Some catastrophic stellar explosions, such as supernovae (SNe), compact binary coalescences, and micro-tidal disruption events, are believed to be embedded in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We show high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Jin-Ping Zhu , Kai Wang , Bing Zhang

Relativistic jets launched from stellar-mass compact objects embedded in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) can produce nonthermal emission upon successfully breaking out of the disk. In this paper, we present a…

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

Winds launched at the scale of the accretion disc or dusty torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to drive energy-conserving outflows that shape galaxy evolution. The key signature of such outflows, the presence of a hot ($T…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Ivan Almeida , Tiago Costa , Chris M. Harrison , Samuel R. Ward

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the core of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) provides room for the elusive ultra-light scalar particles (ULSP) to be produced through a phenomenon called \textit{superradiance}. This phenomenon produces a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Priyanka Sarmah , Himanshu Verma , Kingman Cheung , Joseph Silk

We study the influence of a strong AGN outburst on the surrounding galaxies. The AGN is assumed to reside in a group of galaxies, and an outburst excites a shock wave in the hot gas in the group. We calculate the impact of the shock wave on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yutaka Fujita

Stars embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks or captured by them may scatter onto the supermassive black hole (SMBH), leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). Using the moving-mesh hydrodynamics simulations with {\small AREPO},…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Taeho Ryu , Barry McKernan , Saavik Ford , Matteo Cantiello , Matthew Graham , Daniel Stern , Nathan W. C Leigh

Accretion states, which are universally observed in stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries, are also anticipated in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This is the case at low luminosities, when the jet-corona coupling dominates the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros , Teo Muñoz-Darias

Observing programs comprising multiple scientific objectives will enhance the productivity of NASA's next UV/Visible mission. Studying active galactic nuclei (AGN) is intrinsically important for understanding how black holes accrete matter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-17 Gerard Kriss , Nahum Arav , Anton Koekemoer , Smita Mathur , Bradley M. Peterson , Jennifer E. Scott

There is growing evidence for star formation inside outflows of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The formed stars are injected into bulges and give rise to perturbation of bulges. In this paper, we investigate the issues of non-rotating,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-25 Yue-Chang Peng , Jian-Min Wang , Yu Zhao , Luis C. Ho

Accretion disks in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are predicted to become gravitationally unstable substantially interior to the black hole's sphere of influence, at radii where the disk is simultaneously unstable to the magnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Yan-Fei Jiang , Hannalore J. Gerling-Dunsmore

We use a high-temperature chemical network to derive the molecular abundances in axisymmetric accretion disk models around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) within 100 pc using simple radial and vertical density and temperature distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Nanase Harada , Todd A. Thompson , Eric Herbst

Truncated accretion disks are commonly invoked to explain the spectro-temporal variability from accreting black holes in both small systems, i.e. state transitions in galactic black hole binaries (GBHBs), and large systems, i.e.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 J. Drew Hogg , Christopher S. Reynolds

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), such as Seyfert galaxies, quasars, etc., show light variations in all wavelength bands, with various amplitude and in many time scales. The variations usually look erratic, not periodic nor purely random. Many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chatief Kunjaya , Putra Mahasena , Kiki Vierdayanti , Stefani Herlie

The standard thin accretion disc model predicts that discs around stellar mass black holes become radiation pressure dominated and thermally unstable once their luminosity exceeds L>0.02 L_Edd. Observationally, discs in the high/soft state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Yucong Zhu , Ramesh Narayan

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mark a regime where traditional vacuum models fail to capture the full dynamics, especially due to interaction between stellar debris and pre-existing accretion disks. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Minghao Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Hongping Deng , Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to be promising candidates of extragalactic cosmic-ray accelerators and sources, and associated high-energy neutrino and hadronic gamma-ray emission has been studied for many years. We review models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Kohta Murase

The physics of active super massive black holes (BHs) is governed by their mass (M_BH), spin (a*) and accretion rate ($\dot{M}$). This work is the first in a series of papers with the aim of testing how these parameters determine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel M. Capellupo , Hagai Netzer , Paulina Lira , Benny Trakhtenbrot , Julían Mejía-Restrepo

We show that radiation dominated accretion discs are likely to suffer from a ``photon bubble'' instability similar to that described by Arons in the context of accretion onto neutron star polar caps. The instability requires a magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles F. Gammie

We review critically the evidence concerning the fraction of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) which appear as Type 2 AGN, carefully distinguishing strict Type 2 AGN from both more lightly reddened .Type 1 AGN, and from low excitation narrow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-10 A. Lawrence , M. Elvis
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