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双黑洞并合过程中吸积盘对突然质量损失的反应

Reaction of Accretion Disks to Abrupt Mass Loss During Binary Black Hole Merger

Sean M. O'Neill, M. Coleman Miller, Tamara Bogdanovic, Christopher S. Reynolds, Jeremy D. Schnittman

摘要:

一个电磁信号与一对超大质量黑洞合并的关联将有许多重要的意义。例如,它将提供有关动态时空中气体和磁场相互作用的新信息,以及红移和光度距离的组合,这将使精确的宇宙学测试成为可能。Bode & Phinney(2007)首先提出的一个建议是,由于在黑洞最后的螺旋和合并过程中,引力波的辐射是突然的,并使中心物体的质量减少了几个百分点,所以盘中的波可以陡峭成冲击,从而以一种特有的方式增加盘的光度。我们评估这个过程的分析和数值。我们发现,冲击只发生在分数质量损失超过半厚(h/r)的磁盘,因此显着的能量释放只发生在几何薄磁盘,因此在低爱丁顿比。这极大地限制了有效能量的释放,事实上,我们的模拟表明,圆盘光度的自然变化可能会完全掩盖这种效应。然而,我们证明,减少光度所造成的磁盘的内部边缘的质量损失后撤退是潜在的检测。即使盘在几何上是厚的,这种减少也会发生,并且持续一段时间,大约是修改后的盘的粘性时间。从观察上看,最好的检测前景是未来灵敏的X射线仪器,其视场为平方度量级,或者可能是宽视场无线电阵列,例如平方公里阵列,如果磁盘变化会产生或中断无线电发射从喷气式飞机。

英文摘要:

The association of an electromagnetic signal with the merger of a pair of supermassive black holes would have many important implications. For example, it would provide new information about gas and magnetic field interactions in dynamical spacetimes as well as a combination of redshift and luminosity distance that would enable precise cosmological tests. A proposal first made by Bode & Phinney (2007) is that because radiation of gravitational waves during the final inspiral and merger of the holes is abrupt and decreases the mass of the central object by a few percent, there will be waves in the disk that can steepen into shocks and thus increase the disk luminosity in a characteristic way. We evaluate this process analytically and numerically. We find that shocks only occur when the fractional mass loss exceeds the half-thickness (h/r) of the disk, hence significant energy release only occurs for geometrically thin disks which are thus at low Eddington ratios. This strongly limits the effective energy release, and in fact our simulations show that the natural variations in disk luminosity are likely to obscure this effect entirely. However, we demonstrate that the reduction of luminosity caused by the retreat of the inner edge of the disk following mass loss is potentially detectable. This decrease occurs even if the disk is geometrically thick, and lasts for a duration on the order of the viscous time of the modified disk. Observationally, the best prospect for detection would be a sensitive future X-ray instrument with a field of view of on the order of a square degree, or possibly a wide-field radio array such as the Square Kilometer Array, if the disk changes produce or interrupt radio emission from a jet.

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