2012

Rotating Accretion Flows: From Infinity to the Black Hole

Li, Jason, Ostriker, Jeremiah, Sunyaev, Rashid

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Accretion onto a supermassive black hole of a rotating inflow is a particularly difficult problem to study because of the wide range of length scales involved.

There have been broadly utilized analytic and numerical treatments of the global properties of accretion flows, but detailed numerical simulations are required to address certain critical aspects.
We use the ZEUS code to run hydrodynamical simulations of rotating, axisymmetric accretion flows with Bremsstrahlung cooling, considering solutions for which the centrifugal balance radius significantly exceeds the Schwarzschild radius, with and without viscous angular momentum transport.
Infalling gas is followed from well beyond the Bondi radius down to the vicinity of the black hole.

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