We perform a full 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulation of an equal-mass, spinning, binary black hole approaching merger, surrounded by a circumbinary disk and with mini-disks around each black hole. For this purpose, we evolve the ideal GRMHD equations on top of an approximated spacetime for the binary that is valid in every position of space, including the black hole horizons, during the inspiral regime. We use relaxed initial data for the circumbinary disk from a previous long-term simulation, where the accretion is dominated by an $m=1$ overdensity called the lump. We compare our new spinning simulation with a previous non-spinning run, studying how spin influences the mini-disk properties. We analyze the accretion from the inner edge of the lump to the black hole, focusing on the angular momentum budget of the fluid around the mini-disks. We find that mini-disks in the spinning case have more mass over a cycle than the non-spinning case. However, in both cases, we find most of the mass received by the black holes is delivered by the direct plunging of material from the lump. We also analyze the morphology and variability of the electromagnetic fluxes and we find they share the same periodicities of the accretion rate. In the spinning case, we find that the outflows are $8$ times stronger than the non-spinning case. Our results will be useful to understand and produce realistic synthetic light curves and spectra, which can be used in future observations.
Magnetized accretion onto rapidly spinning binary black holes: mini-disk thermodynamics, magnetic transport, and dual jets
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics（Perimeter理论物理研究所）；Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University（斯坦福大学卡弗里粒子天体物理与宇宙学研究所）；Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院计算相对论与引力中心）；School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院物理与天文学院）；Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Tennessee（田纳西大学物理与天文学系）；Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto（多伦多大学加拿大理论天体物理研究所）；School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study（高等研究院自然科学学院）；Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università di Milano-Bicocca（米兰比可卡大学“G.奥恰利尼”物理系）
Three-dimensional Global Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics of Magnetically Arrested Disk Accretion Flows in AGNs
National Tsing Hua University（国立清华大学）；Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica（中央研究院天文及天文物理研究所）；Center for Theory and Computation, National Tsing Hua University（国立清华大学理论中心）；Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University（台湾大学理论科学中心物理组）；Hakodate Campus, Hokkaido University of Education（北海道教育大学函馆校区）
