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Evolution of MHD torus and mass outflow around spinning AGNs
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Evolution of MHD torus and mass outflow around spinning AGNs

Ramiz Aktar, Kuo-Chuan PanToru Okuda
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 卷.527(2), 頁碼.1745-1759
01/2024

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accretion, accretion discs black hole physics ISM: jets and outflows MHD quasars: supermassive black holes Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science
We perform axisymmetric, 2D magnetohydrodynamic simulations to investigate accretion flows around spinning active galactic nuclei. To mimic the space-time geometry of spinning black holes, we consider effective Kerr potential, and the mass of the black holes is 10 8 M Ȯ . We initialize the accretion disc with a magnetized torus by adopting the toroidal component of the magnetic vector potential. The initial magnetic field strength is set by using the plasma beta parameter (β 0 ). We observe self-consistent turbulence generated by magneto rotational instability (MRI) in the disc. The MRI turbulence transports angular momentum in the disc, resulting in an angular momentum distribution that approaches a Keplerian distribution. We investigate the effect of the magnetic field on the dynamics of the torus and associated mass outflow from the disc around a maximally spinning black hole (a k = 0.99). For the purpose of our analysis, we investigate the magnetic state of our simulation model. The model β 0 = 10 indicates the behaviour similar to the 'magnetically arrested disc' state, and all the other low magnetic model remains in the SANE state. We observe that mass outflow rates are significantly enhanced with the increased magnetic field in the disc. We find a positive correlation between the magnetic field and mass outflow rates. We also investigate the effect of black hole spin on the magnetized torus evolution. However, we have not found any significant effect of black hole spin on mass outflows in our model. Finally, we discuss the possible astrophysical applications of our simulation results.

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