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Spiral Waves and Shocks in Discs around Black Holes: Low Compressibility and High Compressibility Models

  • LANZAFAME GIUSEPPE;BELVEDERE GAETANO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.313-315
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    • 2001
  • Some authors have concluded that spiral structures and shocks do not develop if an adiabatic index $\gamma$ > 1.16 is adopted in accretion disc modelling, whilst others have claimed that they obtained well defined spirals and shocks adopting a $\gamma$ = 1.2 and a $M_2/ M_1$ = 1 stellar mass ratio. In our opinion, it should be possible to develop spiral structures for low compressibility gas accretion discs if the primary component is a black hole. We considered a primary black hole of 8M0 and a small secondary component of 0.5M$\bigodot$ to favour spiral structures formations and possible spiral shocks via gas compression due to a strong gravitational attraction. We performed two 3D SPH simulations and two 2D SPH simulations and characterized a low compressibility model and a high compressibility model for each couple of simulations. 2D models reveal spiral structures existence. Moreover, spiral shocks are also evident in high compressibility 2D model at the outer disc edge. We believe that we could develop even well defined spiral shocks considering a more massive primary component.

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PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES IN THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE

  • Hwang, C.O.;Hyun, J.J.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.38-49
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    • 1991
  • Energy density evolution of primordial black holes(PBHs) due to quantum gravitational tunneling effect in the very early Universe is calculated for the four cases of GUTs(grand unified theories) (SM, SUSY SM, SUSY SU(5), SU(5)). For the three of them (SM, SUSY SM, SUSY SU(5)), it is confirmed that there are a considerable amount of PBHs and so it may give a firm support to Lindley's paper(1981) in which he tried to solve the baryon asymmetry problem. It is shown that the formation of PBHs increases the cosmic scale factor R and decreases the total energy density $\rho_t$ faster than in the usual radiation dominated era.

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AN AXISYMMETRIC, NONSTATIONARY BLACK HOLE MAGNETOSPHERE

  • PARK SEOK JAE
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2000
  • In the earlier papers we analyzed the axisymmetric, nonstationary electrodynamics of the central black hole and a surrounding thin accretion disk in an active galactic nucleus. In this paper we analyze the axisymmetric, nonstationary electrodynamics of the black hole magnetosphere in a similar way. In the earlier papers we employed the poloidal component of the plasma velocity which is confined only to the radial direction of the cylindrical coordinate system. In this paper we employ a more general poloidal velocity and get the Grad-Shafranov equation of the force-free magnetosphere of a Kerr black hole. The equation is consistent with the previous ones and is more general in many aspects as it should be. We also show in more general approaches that the angular velocity of the magnetic field lines anchored on the accreting matter tends to become close to that of the black hole at the equatorial zone of the hole.

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