SIMULATIONS OF VISCOUS ACCRETION FLOW AROUND BLACK HOLES IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 831; no. 1; pp. 33 - 54
• Main Authors: Lee, Seong-Jae, Chattopadhyay, Indranil, Kumar, Rajiv, Hyung, Siek, Ryu, Dongsu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia The American Astronomical Society 01.11.2016; IOP Publishing
• Subjects: Accretion; ACCRETION DISKS; accretion, accretion disks; ACCURACY; AMPLITUDES; ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; Astrophysics; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLES; DISTRIBUTION; EMISSION; Exact solutions; HARD X RADIATION; Hard X-rays; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; hydrodynamics; Initial conditions; instabilities; INSTABILITY; Jets; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; Mathematical analysis; methods: numerical; OSCILLATIONS; Periodicities; PERIODICITY; QUASARS; Quasi-Periodic Oscillations; SIMULATION; TRANSIENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; VISCOSITY
• ISSN: 0004-637X; 1538-4357
• DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/33

ABSTRACT We simulate shock-free and shocked viscous accretion flows onto a black hole in a two-dimensional cylindrical geometry, where initial conditions were chosen from analytical solutions. The simulation code used the Lagrangian total variation diminishing plus remap routine, which enabled us to attain high accuracy in capturing shocks and to handle the angular momentum distribution correctly. The inviscid shock-free accretion disk solution produced a thick disk structure, while the viscous shock-free solution attained a Bondi-like structure, but in either case, no jet activity nor any quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO)-like activity developed. The steady-state shocked solution in the inviscid as well as in the viscous regime matched theoretical predictions well. However, increasing viscosity renders the accretion shock unstable. Large-amplitude shock oscillation is accompanied by intermittent, transient inner multiple shocks. This oscillation of the inner part of the disk is interpreted as the source of QPO in hard X-rays observed in micro-quasars. Strong shock oscillation induces strong episodic jet emission. The jets also show the existence of shocks, which are produced as one shell hits the preceding one. The periodicities of the jets and shock oscillation are similar; the jets for the higher viscosity parameter appear to be stronger and faster.