Impact of Schwarzschild black hole's gravity upon the Rossby wave instability
arXiv:1610.00887 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2572
Abstract
In an early work the Rossby Wave Instability (RWI) has been proposed to explain variability thought to originate in the close vicinity of black-holes but this was done in the pseudo-Newtonian approach. Here we present the first general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations of this instability not only proving its theorized existence in a full general relativistic (GR) environment but also studying the effect of the strong gravity on the instability. To that end we performed a set of simulations increasingly closer to the black hole with our new GR version of the MPI-AMRVAC code.This allows us to study the minute changes in the behaviour of the instability.We found that the pseudo-Newtonian approach gives adequate results provided that time shifting induced by the black hole gravity is taken into account. Hence, to view the disc as a distant observer would a full GR ray-tracing post treatment of the simulations is a must.
10 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted
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