Impacts of radiative cooling on the images of a black hole shadow and extended jets in two-temperature GRMHD simulations

Abstract

The recent 230 GHz observations from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration have successfully imaged the supermassive black hole shadow of the M87 galaxy. However, the relatively high radiative efficiency observed in the hot accretion flow suggests that radiative cooling is non-negligible and should be considered when calculating the electron temperature. In this study, we compare accretion models without and with radiative cooling across a range of mass accretion rates, ${\dot{M}}_{\mathrm{BH}}=(1.0-10)\times 10^{-6}{\dot{M}}_{\mathrm{Edd}}$, aiming to assess the impact of cooling on the disk structure, electron temperature distribution (eDF), black hole shadow morphology, broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs), and flux variability. We performed general relativistic radiative transfer (GRRT) calculations on two-temperature, radiative, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, employing different electron heating prescriptions and nonthermal eDFs, analyzing the radiation transfer due to synchrotron emission at 230 GHz with inclination angle of $163^{\circ }$. These simulations are targeted toward M87${}^{\ast }$. By comparing density profiles, eDFs, GRRT images, SEDs, and time variability between models, we find that the radiative cooling sharply decreases the electron temperature in the dense inner disk around the equatorial plane ($r\lesssim 10r_{\mathrm{g}}$), while slightly reducing jet sheath temperature. Cooling leads to a dimmer disk, more extended and brighter jets, and reduced total flux. For a given accretion rate, cooling reduces the high-frequency flux. Time variability originates primarily from the midplane in both non-cooling and cooling cases and decreases as accretion rates rise. Although currently below the dynamic range of EHT observations, the features identified in this study could be resolved by next-generation arrays such as the ngEHT.

15 pages, 14 figures. Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Abstract shortened for arXiv compliance

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