Bridging the bondi and event horizon scales: 3d grmhd simulations reveal x-shaped radio galaxy morphology

A Lalakos, O Gottlieb, N Kaaz… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs) produce misaligned X-shaped jet pairs and make up≲ 10%
of radio galaxies. XRGs are thought to emerge in galaxies featuring a binary supermassive …

Alive but Barely Kicking: News from 3+ yr of Swift and XMM-Newton X-Ray Monitoring of Quasiperiodic Eruptions from eRO-QPE1

DR Pasham, ER Coughlin, M Zajaček… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) represent a novel class of extragalactic X-ray transients that
are known to repeat at roughly regular intervals of a few hours to days. Their underlying …

The effects of gas angular momentum on the formation of magnetically arrested disks and the launching of powerful jets

TM Kwan, L Dai, A Tchekhovskoy - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this letter, we investigate Bondi-like accretion flows with zero or low specific angular
momentum by performing 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. In …

Truncated accretion discs in black hole X-ray binaries: dynamics and variability signatures

IK Dihingia, B Vaidya, C Fendt - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Variable features in black hole X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs) are observed in different energy
ranges and time-scales. The physical origin of different spectral states in BH-XRBs and their …

General relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of perturbed transonic accretion

HR Olivares, MA Mościbrodzka, O Porth - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Contact. Comparing horizon-scale observations of Sgr A* and M 87* with numerical
simulations has provided considerable insight into their interpretation. Most of these …

Three-dimensional simulations of advective, sub-Keplerian accretion flow on to non-rotating black holes

SK Garain, J Kim - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flow on to a non-rotating
black hole using a three-dimensional, inviscid hydrodynamics simulation code. Prior two …

Dynamical Properties of Magnetized Low-angular-momentum Accretion Flows around a Kerr Black Hole

IK Dihingia, Y Mizuno - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
An essential factor for determining the characteristics of an accretion flow is its angular
momentum. According to the angular momentum of the flow, semi-analytical analysis …

Study of relativistic accretion flow around KTN black hole with shocks

G Sen, D Maity, S Das - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the global solutions of low angular momentum, inviscid, advective accretion flow
around Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) black hole in presence and absence of shock waves. These …

On the maximum stellar rotation to form a black hole without an accompanying luminous transient

A Murguia-Berthier, A Batta, A Janiuk… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The collapse of a massive star with low angular momentum content is commonly thought to
result in the formation of a black hole without an accompanying bright transient. Our goal in …

Shocks in relativistic viscous accretion flows around Kerr black holes

IK Dihingia, S Das, D Maity… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the relativistic viscous accretion flows around the Kerr black holes. We present the
governing equations that describe the steady-state flow motion in full general relativity and …