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Magnetized accretion onto rapidly spinning binary black holes: mini-disk thermodynamics, magnetic transport, and dual jets
Luciano Combi, Manuela Campanelli, Sean M. Ressler +2
Supermassive binary black holes embedded in gas-rich environments are promising multi-messenger sources for pulsar timing arrays and future space-borne gravitational-wave interfero…
Observational Tests of Sgr A*'s State of the Accretion Flow
F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. G. Arendt, H. Bushouse +4
General relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of the possibly magnetically arrested disk (MAD) of the accretion flow of Sgr A* predict short and long time variabili…
Modes in Transitional Millisecond Pulsars: Evidence of Pulsar Wind-Induced Disk Heating from GRMHD and Radiative Transfer
Raphaël Mignon-Risse, Manuel Linares, Kyle Parfrey +2
Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) alternate between radio and X-ray pulsar states, and can represent the missing link between rotation- and accretion-powered neutron stars.…
Constraining the Galactic Center Dark Cluster with ELT/MICADO Observations
Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Matúš Labaj, Sean M. Ressler
The Galactic Center hosts the densest known stellar environment in the Milky Way, dominated by the massive black hole Sgr A* and the surrounding nuclear star cluster. Theory predic…
Stellar-wind Fueled Accretion onto Sagittarius A* in the Presence of a Nuclear Star Cluster
Edward Skrabacz, Lena Murchikova, Sean M. Ressler +2
The Milky Way's Galactic Center hosts the black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), which provides us with a close-up view into supermassive black hole accretion and feedback. Recent wor…
Black Hole Collisions With Thin Accretion Disks: OJ 287 and Small-Mass-Ratio Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates
Sean M. Ressler, Luciano Combi, Bart Ripperda +1
OJ 287 is the best-known supermassive black hole binary candidate in the nanohertz gravitational wave band. It exhibits periodic flares every 12 years, likely caused by coll…
Compact stellar systems hosting an intermediate mass black hole: magnetohydrodynamic study of inflow-outflow dynamics
Matúš Labaj, Sean M. Ressler, Michal Zajaček +3
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are a missing link in black hole demographics, with only tentative observational evidence to date. Dense stellar clusters such as IRS 13E near…
Dual Jet Interaction, Magnetically Arrested Flows, and Flares in Accreting Binary Black Holes
Sean M. Ressler, Luciano Combi, Bart Ripperda +1
Supermassive binary black holes in galactic centers are potential multimessenger sources in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation. To find such objects, isolating uniqu…
Black Hole-Disk Interactions in Magnetically Arrested Active Galactic Nuclei: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Using A Time-Dependent, Binary Metric
Sean M. Ressler, Luciano Combi, Xinyu Li +2
Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present…
A binary black hole metric approximation from inspiral to merger
Luciano Combi, Sean M. Ressler
We present a semi-analytical binary black hole (BBH) metric approximation that models the entire evolution of the system from inspiral to merger. The metric is constructed as a boo…
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observati…
Wind-Fed GRMHD Simulations of Sagittarius A*: Tilt and Alignment of Jets and Accretion Discs, Electron Thermodynamics, and Multi-Scale Modeling of the Rotation Measure
Sean M. Ressler, Christopher J. White, Eliot Quataert
Wind-fed models offer a unique way to form predictive models of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A*. We present 3D, wind-fed MHD and GRMHD simulations spanning the entire…
The Inner 2 pc of Sagittarius A*: Simulations of the Circumnuclear Disk and Multiphase Gas Accretion in the Galactic Center
Siddhant Solanki, Sean M. Ressler, Lena Murchikova +2
We present hydrodynamic simulations of the inner few parsecs of the Milky Way's Galactic Center that, for the first time, combine a realistic treatment of stellar winds and the cir…
Emission Modeling in the EHT-ngEHT Age
Richard Anantua, Joaquín Dúran, Nathan Ngata +9
This work proposes a methodology to test phenomenologically-motivated emission processes that account for the flux and polarization distribution and global structure of the 230 GHz…
Remarkable correspondence of Sagittarius A* submillimeter variability with a stellar-wind-fed accretion flow model
Lena Murchikova, Christopher J. White, Sean M. Ressler
We compare the 230 GHz near-horizon emission from Sagittarius A* to simulations representing three classes of accretion flows. Using the structure function to capture the variabili…
Observational Signatures of Black Hole Accretion: Rotating vs. Spherical Flows with Tilted Magnetic Fields
He Jia, Christopher J. White, Eliot Quataert +1
We study the observational signatures of magnetically arrested black hole accretion with non-rotating inflow onto a rotating black hole; we consider a range of angles between the b…
3D MHD Simulation of a Pulsationally-Driven MRI Decretion Disc
Sean M. Ressler
We explore the pulsationally driven orbital mass ejection mechanism for Be star disc formation using isothermal, 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and hydrodynamic simulations. Non-radi…
Iharm3D: Vectorized General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
Cora Prather, George N. Wong, Vedant Dhruv +4
Iharm3D is an open-source C code for simulating black hole accretion systems in arbitrary stationary spacetimes using ideal general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). It is…
Relative depolarization of the black hole photon ring in GRMHD models of Sgr A* and M87*
A. Jiménez-Rosales, J. Dexter, S. M. Ressler +15
Using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes, we show that a suitable subtraction of the linear polarization per pixel from total intensity i…
Magnetically Modified Spherical Accretion in GRMHD: Reconnection-Driven Convection and Jet Propagation
Sean M. Ressler, Eliot Quataert, Christopher J. White +1
We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initi…
Ab Initio Horizon-Scale Simulations of Magnetically Arrested Accretion in Sagittarius A* Fed by Stellar Winds
Sean M. Ressler, Christopher J. White, Eliot Quataert +1
We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A* that are initialized using larger-scale MHD simulations…
Sgr A* near-infrared flares from reconnection events in a magnetically arrested disc
J. Dexter, A. Tchekhovskoy, A. Jiménez-Rosales +14
Large-amplitude Sgr A* near-infrared flares result from energy injection into electrons near the black hole event horizon. Astrometry data show continuous rotation of the emission…
A parameter survey of Sgr A* radiative models from GRMHD simulations with self-consistent electron heating
J. Dexter, A. Jiménez-Rosales, S. M. Ressler +13
The Galactic center black hole candidate Sgr A* is the best target for studies of low-luminosity accretion physics, including with near-infrared and submillimeter wavelength long b…
On the Comparison of AGN with GRMHD Simulations: I. Sgr A*
Richard Anantua, Sean Ressler, Eliot Quataert
We present models of Galactic Center emission in the vicinity of Sagittarius A* that use parametrizations of the electron temperature or energy density. These models include those…