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We investigate state transitions in black hole X-ray binaries through different parameters by using two-dimensional axisymmetric hydrodynamical simulation method. For radiative cooling in hot accretion flow, we take into account the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Mao-Chun Wu , Fu-Guo Xie , Ye-Fei Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan

Recent observations by Chandra and XMM-Newton demonstrate that the central gas in "cooling flow" galaxy clusters has a mass cooling rate that decreases rapidly with decreasing temperature. This contrasts the predictions of a steady state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker , S. Pellegrini

Observations and numerical simulations have shown that outflows generally exist in the accretion process. We revisit the thermal equilibrium solutions of black hole accretion flows by including the role of outflows. Our study focuses on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Wen-Biao Wu , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun

Central cluster galaxies (cDs) in cooling flows are growing rapidly through gas accretion and star formation. At the same time, AGN outbursts fueled by accretion onto supermassive black holes are generating X-ray cavity systems and driving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. A. Rafferty , B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen , M. W. Wise

We propose a scenario in which a large fraction, or even most, of the gas cooling to low temperatures of T<10^4 K in cooling flow clusters, directly gains energy from the central black hole. Most of the cool gas is accelerated to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Noam Soker , Fabio Pizzolato

Using a set of zoomed-in cosmological simulations of high-redshift progenitors of massive galaxies, we isolate and trace the history of gas that is accreted by central supermassive black holes. We determine the origins of the accreted gas,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Jillian Bellovary , Alyson Brooks , Marta Volonteri , Fabio Governato , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

We use three-dimensional high-resolution adaptive-mesh-refinement simulations to investigate if mechanical feedback from active galactic nucleus jets can halt a massive cooling flow in a galaxy cluster and give rise to a self-regulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Cattaneo , R. Teyssier

We present the results from axisymmetric time-dependent HD calculations of gas flows which are under the influence of gravity of a black hole in quasars. We assume that the flows are non-rotating and exposed to quasar radiation. We take…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel Proga

We investigate the behaviour of dissipative accreting matter close to a black hole as it provides the important observational features of galactic and extra-galactic black holes candidates. We find the complete set of global solutions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Santabrata Das

Plasmas in an accretion flow are heated by MHD turbulence generated through the magneto-rotational instability. The viscous stress driving the accretion is intimately connected to the microscopic processes of turbulence dissipation. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-04 Siming Liu , Christopher L. Fryer , Hui Li

We analyze two time-dependent cluster cooling flow models in spherical symmetry. The first assumes that the intracluster gas resides in a static external potential, and includes the effects of optically thin radiative cooling and mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Eric A. Lufkin , Craig L. Sarazin , Raymond E. White , III

We consider time-dependent models for rotating accretion flows onto black holes, where a transition takes place from an outer cooling-dominated disc to a radiatively inefficient flow in the inner region. In order to allow for a transition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Gracia , J. Peitz , Ch. Keller , M. Camenzind

(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

The gas in the cores of many clusters and groups of galaxies has a short radiative cooling time. Energy from the central black hole is observed to flow into this gas by means of jets, bubbles and sound waves. Cooling is thus offset by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

Neutrino-cooled accretion disks can form in the aftermath of neutron-star mergers as well as during the collapse of rapidly rotating massive stars (collapsars) and the accretion-induced collapse of rapidly rotating white dwarfs. Due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Javiera Hernández-Morales , Daniel M. Siegel

Previous numerical simulations have shown that cold clumps can form within hot accretion flows, offering insights into the detailed processes of the state transition in black hole X-ray binaries. However, the evolution of the cold clumps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Na-Duo Liu , Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Mao-Chun Wu , Ren-Yi Ma

We perform a set of general relativistic, radiative, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations (GR-RMHD) to study the transition from radiatively inefficient to efficient state of accretion on a non-rotating black hole. We study ion to electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Sadowski , M. Gaspari

A supermassive black hole in the nucleus of an elliptical galaxy at the centre of a cool-core group or cluster of galaxies is immersed in hot gas. Bondi accretion should occur at a rate determined by the properties of the gas at the Bondi…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ramesh Narayan , Andrew C. Fabian

We present a numerical method which evolves a two-temperature, magnetized, radiative, accretion flow around a black hole, within the framework of general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics. As implemented in the code KORAL, the gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 A. Sadowski , M. Wielgus , R. Narayan , D. Abarca , J. C. McKinney , A. Chael

Observational evidence and many numerical simulations show the existence of wind (i.e., uncollimated outflow) in accretion systems of the elliptical galaxy center. One of the primary aims of this study is to investigate the solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-23 Razieh Ranjbar , Shahram Abbassi