General relativistic simulations of accretion disks around tilted kerr black holes

Vassilios Mewes; Pedro J. Montero; Nikolaos Stergioulas; Filippo Galeazzi; José A. Font

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10488-1_10

General relativistic simulations of accretion disks around tilted kerr black holes

Vassilios Mewes, Pedro J. Montero, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Filippo Galeazzi, José A. Font

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Abstract

We simulate the dynamics of self-gravitating accretion disks around tilted Kerr black holes (BH) in full 3D general relativity. For this purpose we employ the EinsteinToolkit, using the thorn McLachlan for the evolution of the spacetime via the BSSN formalism of the Einstein equations and the thorn GRHydro for the evolution of the hydrodynamics, using a 3D Cartesian mesh with adaptive mesh refinement. We investigate the effects of the tilt angle between the disk angular momentum and BH spin vector on the dynamics of these systems as the disk evolves in the tilted spacetime. By evolving the spacetime and matter fields, we are able to observe how both BH and disk react and evolve in the tilted configuration. For the very light disk with a constant specific angular momentum profile that we study, we observe a significant change of the disk shape after a few orbits. This change is more pronounced the larger the initial inclination angle is.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Gravitational Wave Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics
Editors	Carlos F. Sopuerta, Carlos F. Sopuerta
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	121-127
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319104874, 9783319104874
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10488-1_10
State	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, 2014 - Sant Cugat, Spain Duration: Apr 22 2014 → Apr 25 2014

Publication series

Name	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Volume	40
ISSN (Print)	1570-6591
ISSN (Electronic)	1570-6605

Conference

Conference	3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, 2014
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Sant Cugat
Period	04/22/14 → 04/25/14

Funding

V. Mewes would like to thank Ewald Müller and the MPA for the support during his visit. This work is supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia in the project Computational Relativistic Astrophysics (AYA2010-21097-C03-01) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through its Transregional Center SFB/TR7. The simulations have been performed on the Hydra HPC system at the Rechenzentrum Garching.

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Mewes, V., Montero, P. J., Stergioulas, N., Galeazzi, F., & Font, J. A. (2015). General relativistic simulations of accretion disks around tilted kerr black holes. In C. F. Sopuerta, & C. F. Sopuerta (Eds.), Gravitational Wave Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics (pp. 121-127). (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings; Vol. 40). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10488-1_10

Mewes, Vassilios ; Montero, Pedro J. ; Stergioulas, Nikolaos et al. / General relativistic simulations of accretion disks around tilted kerr black holes. Gravitational Wave Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. editor / Carlos F. Sopuerta ; Carlos F. Sopuerta. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015. pp. 121-127 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings).

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Mewes, V, Montero, PJ, Stergioulas, N, Galeazzi, F & Font, JA 2015, General relativistic simulations of accretion disks around tilted kerr black holes. in CF Sopuerta & CF Sopuerta (eds), Gravitational Wave Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol. 40, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 121-127, 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, 2014, Sant Cugat, Spain, 04/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10488-1_10

General relativistic simulations of accretion disks around tilted kerr black holes. / Mewes, Vassilios; Montero, Pedro J.; Stergioulas, Nikolaos et al.
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. ed. / Carlos F. Sopuerta; Carlos F. Sopuerta. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015. p. 121-127 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings; Vol. 40).

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