Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics

In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided the first-ever event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (BHs) M87∗ and Sagittarius A∗ (Sgr A∗ ). The next-generation EHT project is an extension of the EHT array that promises larger angular resolution and higher...

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Autores: Chatterjee, Koushik, Chael, Andrew, Tiede, Paul, Mizuno, Yosuke, Emami, Razieh, Fromm, Christian, Ricarte, Angelo, Blackburn, Lindy, Roelofs, Freek, Johnson, Michael D., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Arras, Philipp, Fuentes, Antonio, Knollmüller, Jakob, Kosogorov, Nikita, Lindahl, Greg, Müller, Hendrik, Patel, Nimesh, Raymond, Alexander W., Traianou, E., Vega, Justin
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Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palabra clave:Black holes
General relativity
Accretion
Relativistic jets
Very-long-baseline interferometry
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
title Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
spellingShingle Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
Chatterjee, Koushik
Black holes
General relativity
Accretion
Relativistic jets
Very-long-baseline interferometry
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title_short Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
title_full Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
title_fullStr Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
title_full_unstemmed Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
title_sort Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation Physics
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Chatterjee, Koushik
Chael, Andrew
Tiede, Paul
Mizuno, Yosuke
Emami, Razieh
Fromm, Christian
Ricarte, Angelo
Blackburn, Lindy
Roelofs, Freek
Johnson, Michael D.
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Arras, Philipp
Fuentes, Antonio
Knollmüller, Jakob
Kosogorov, Nikita
Lindahl, Greg
Müller, Hendrik
Patel, Nimesh
Raymond, Alexander W.
Traianou, E.
Vega, Justin
author Chatterjee, Koushik
author_facet Chatterjee, Koushik
Chael, Andrew
Tiede, Paul
Mizuno, Yosuke
Emami, Razieh
Fromm, Christian
Ricarte, Angelo
Blackburn, Lindy
Roelofs, Freek
Johnson, Michael D.
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Arras, Philipp
Fuentes, Antonio
Knollmüller, Jakob
Kosogorov, Nikita
Lindahl, Greg
Müller, Hendrik
Patel, Nimesh
Raymond, Alexander W.
Traianou, E.
Vega, Justin
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author2 Chael, Andrew
Tiede, Paul
Mizuno, Yosuke
Emami, Razieh
Fromm, Christian
Ricarte, Angelo
Blackburn, Lindy
Roelofs, Freek
Johnson, Michael D.
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Arras, Philipp
Fuentes, Antonio
Knollmüller, Jakob
Kosogorov, Nikita
Lindahl, Greg
Müller, Hendrik
Patel, Nimesh
Raymond, Alexander W.
Traianou, E.
Vega, Justin
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author
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author
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author
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European Research Council
National Science Foundation (US)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
International Max Planck Research Schools
German Research Foundation
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Black holes
General relativity
Accretion
Relativistic jets
Very-long-baseline interferometry
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topic Black holes
General relativity
Accretion
Relativistic jets
Very-long-baseline interferometry
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description In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided the first-ever event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (BHs) M87∗ and Sagittarius A∗ (Sgr A∗ ). The next-generation EHT project is an extension of the EHT array that promises larger angular resolution and higher sensitivity to the dim, extended flux around the central ring-like structure, possibly connecting the accretion flow and the jet. The ngEHT Analysis Challenges aim to understand the science extractability from synthetic images and movies to inform the ngEHT array design and analysis algorithm development. In this work, we compare the accretion flow structure and dynamics in numerical fluid simulations that specifically target M87∗ and Sgr A∗, and were used to construct the source models in the challenge set. We consider (1) a steady-state axisymmetric radiatively inefficient accretion flow model with a time-dependent shearing hotspot, (2) two time-dependent single fluid general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations from the H-AMR code, (3) a two-temperature GRMHD simulation from the BHAC code, and (4) a two-temperature radiative GRMHD simulation from the KORAL code. We find that the different models exhibit remarkably similar temporal and spatial properties, except for the electron temperature, since radiative losses substantially cool down electrons near the BH and the jet sheath, signaling the importance of radiative cooling even for slowly accreting BHs such as M87∗. We restrict ourselves to standard torus accretion flows, and leave larger explorations of alternate accretion models to future work. © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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spelling Accretion Flow Morphology in Numerical Simulations of Black Holes from the ngEHT Model Library: The Impact of Radiation PhysicsChatterjee, KoushikChael, AndrewTiede, PaulMizuno, YosukeEmami, RaziehFromm, ChristianRicarte, AngeloBlackburn, LindyRoelofs, FreekJohnson, Michael D.Doeleman, Sheperd S.Arras, PhilippFuentes, AntonioKnollmüller, JakobKosogorov, NikitaLindahl, GregMüller, HendrikPatel, NimeshRaymond, Alexander W.Traianou, E.Vega, JustinBlack holesGeneral relativityAccretionRelativistic jetsVery-long-baseline interferometryddc:520In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided the first-ever event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (BHs) M87∗ and Sagittarius A∗ (Sgr A∗ ). The next-generation EHT project is an extension of the EHT array that promises larger angular resolution and higher sensitivity to the dim, extended flux around the central ring-like structure, possibly connecting the accretion flow and the jet. The ngEHT Analysis Challenges aim to understand the science extractability from synthetic images and movies to inform the ngEHT array design and analysis algorithm development. In this work, we compare the accretion flow structure and dynamics in numerical fluid simulations that specifically target M87∗ and Sgr A∗, and were used to construct the source models in the challenge set. We consider (1) a steady-state axisymmetric radiatively inefficient accretion flow model with a time-dependent shearing hotspot, (2) two time-dependent single fluid general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations from the H-AMR code, (3) a two-temperature GRMHD simulation from the BHAC code, and (4) a two-temperature radiative GRMHD simulation from the KORAL code. We find that the different models exhibit remarkably similar temporal and spatial properties, except for the electron temperature, since radiative losses substantially cool down electrons near the BH and the jet sheath, signaling the importance of radiative cooling even for slowly accreting BHs such as M87∗. We restrict ourselves to standard torus accretion flows, and leave larger explorations of alternate accretion models to future work. © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.We thank the National Science Foundation (AST-1716536, AST-1935980 and AST-2034306) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF-10423) for financially supporting this work. This work was supported in part by the Black Hole Initiative, which is funded by grants from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF-61497) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF-8273) to Harvard University. K.C. is also supported in part by the Black Hole PIRE program (NSF grant OISE-1743747). R.E. acknowledges the support by the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics as well as grant numbers 21-atp21-0077, NSF AST-1816420, and HST-GO-16173.001-A for very generous supports. H.M. received financial support for this research from the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. This research is supported by the DFG research grant “Jet physics on horizon scales and beyond” (Grant No. FR 4069/2-1), the ERC synergy grant “BlackHoleCam: Imaging the Event Horizon of Black Holes” (Grant No. 610058), and ERC advanced grant “JETSET: Launching, propagation and emission of relativistic jets from binary mergers and across mass scales” (Grant No. 884631). J.K. acknowledges funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2094—390783311. Y.M. is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12273022) and the Shanghai pilot program of international scientists for basic research (No. 22JC1410600).Peer reviewedMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteEuropean CommissionEuropean Research CouncilNational Science Foundation (US)Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationInternational Max Planck Research SchoolsGerman Research FoundationNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/330557reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE##PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/610058info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/884631http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11020038Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3305572026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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