In the course of its evolution, a black hole (BH) accretes gas from a wide range of directions. Given a random accretion event, the typical angular momentum of an accretion disc would be tilted by $\sim$60$^\circ$ relative to the BH spin. Misalignment causes the disc to precess at a rate that increases with BH spin and tilt angle. We present the first general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations spanning a full precession period of highly tilted (60$^\circ$), moderately thin ($h/r=0.1$) accretion discs around a rapidly spinning ($a\simeq0.9$) BH. While the disc and jets precess in phase, we find that the corona, sandwiched between the two, lags behind by $\gtrsim 10^{\circ}$. For spectral models of BH accretion, the implication is that hard non-thermal (corona) emission lags behind the softer (disc) emission, thus potentially explaining some properties of the hard energy lags seen in Type-C low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations in X-Ray binaries. While strong jets are unaffected by this disc-corona lag, weak jets stall when encountering the lagging corona at distances $r \sim 100$ black hole radii. This interaction may quench large-scale jet formation.
Black hole to breakout: 3D GRMHD simulations of collapsar jets reveal a wide range of transients
我们提出了一套第一个3D GRMHD星的模拟,从自洽射流发射的吸积克尔黑洞(BH)的突破从恒星。我们确定了三种类型的外流,取决于角动量,$ l $,崩溃的材料和磁场,$ B $,在BH地平线上:(一)次相对论外流(低$ l $和高$ B $),(二)定常吸积激波不稳定性(SASI;高$ l $和低$ B $),(三)相对论喷流(高$ l $和高$ B $)。在没有喷流的情况下,恒星包层的自由落体为BH吸积速率提供了一个很好的估计。喷流可以大大抑制吸积率,其持续时间可以限制在恒星的磁化剖面。我们发现,大(陡峭)的内部密度幂律指数($ \gtrsim 2 $)的祖先,面临着极端的挑战,伽马射线暴(GRB)的祖先,由于过度的亮度,全球时间演变的光变曲线在整个爆发和短的爆发时间,与观测不一致。我们的研究结果表明,各种各样的观测到的爆炸外观(超新星/超新星+伽玛暴/低光度伽玛暴)和发射相对论流出的特性(亮度和持续时间)可以自然地解释的祖先结构的差异。我们的模拟揭示了几个重要的喷流功能:(一)强磁耗散内的恒星,导致弱磁化射流突破,可能有显着的光球发射和(二)自发出现的倾斜吸积盘喷流,即使在没有任何倾斜的祖。
Multimessenger Signatures of Tilted, Self-Gravitating, Black Hole Disks
Universitat de València(瓦伦西亚大学);University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校超级计算应用国家中心);Academy of Athens(雅典科学院)
Wind-Fed GRMHD Simulations of Sagittarius A*: Tilt and Alignment of Jets and Accretion Discs, Electron Thermodynamics, and Multi-Scale Modeling of the Rotation Measure
Exploring the tilted accretion disc of AQ Men with TESS
AQ Men是一颗类似新星的变星,被认为有一个倾斜的旋进吸积盘。在这个系统中的掠食被推测是有用的探索其吸积盘的几何形状。在这项工作中,我们分析了AQ Men的TESS观测,它提供了迄今为止该物体的最佳光变曲线。我们发现,食的深度随着吸积盘的方向而变化,这意味着它们可以作为倾斜吸积盘模型的直接测试。在TESS观测期间,吸积盘的进动周期在增加。然而,它仍然比以前研究中确定的时间短。与吸积盘进动相关的变化幅度不同,这种变化的形状也不同。此外,我们还发现了一个以前在AQ Men中看不到的正超级峰。有趣的是,正超峰有一个强烈的非正弦形状,这是不期望的新星样变量。
Magnetically Driven Retrograde Precession in Misaligned Black Hole Accretion Flows
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交大李政道研究所);School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学物理与天文学院);Key Laboratory for Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University(粒子物理、天体物理和宇宙学重点实验室,上海粒子物理和宇宙学重点实验室,上海交通大学);Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University(康奈尔大学天文学系天体物理学与行星科学中心)
Optical polarization of stellar-fed active and quiescent supermassive black holes
Ruhr University Bochum(鲁尔大学波鸿);University of California, Santa Cruz(加州大学圣克鲁兹分校);DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学尼尔斯·玻尔研究所DARK);European Space Agency, European Space Astronomy Centre(欧洲航天局欧洲空间天文中心);University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校);Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校联合空间科学研究所);Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心天体物理学科学部)