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The plunging region of thin accretion discs across the black hole spin range
Jake Rule, Andrew Mummery, Steven Balbus +2
We compute and test analytic models for the plunging region dynamics, thermodynamics, and magnetic fields against dedicated 3D global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD…
The plunging region of a thin accretion disc around a Schwarzschild black hole
Jake Rule, Andrew Mummery, Steven Balbus +2
A set of analytic solutions for the plunging region thermodynamics have been developed recently under the assumption that the fluid undergoes a gravity-dominated geodesic plunge in…
Determining the difference between local acceleration and local gravity: applications of the equivalence principle to relativistic trajectories
Steven A. Balbus
We show by direct calculation that the common Equivalence Principle explanation for why gravity must deflect light is quantitatively incorrect by a factor of three in Schwarzschild…
The dynamics of accretion flows near to the innermost stable circular orbit
Andrew Mummery, Francesco Mori, Steven Balbus
Accretion flows are fundamentally turbulent systems, yet are classically modelled with viscous theories only valid on length scales significantly greater than the typical size of t…
Testing theories of accretion and gravity with super-extremal Kerr discs
Andrew Mummery, Steven Balbus, Adam Ingram
Fitting the thermal continuum emission of accreting black holes observed across X-ray bands represents one of the principle means of constraining the properties (mass and spin) of…
Fundamental scaling relationships revealed in the optical light curves of tidal disruption events
Andrew Mummery, Sjoert van Velzen, Edward Nathan +4
We present fundamental scaling relationships between properties of the optical/UV light curves of tidal disruption events (TDEs) and the mass of the black hole that disrupted the s…