Measuring the spins of accreting black holes

JE McClintock, R Narayan, SW Davis… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A typical galaxy is thought to contain tens of millions of stellar-mass black holes, the
collapsed remnants of once massive stars, and a single nuclear supermassive black hole …

Comparison of thawing and freezing dark energy parametrizations

G Pantazis, S Nesseris, L Perivolaropoulos - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Dark energy equation of state w (z) parametrizations with two parameters and given
monotonicity are generically either convex or concave functions. This makes them suitable …

Effects of fluid composition on spherical flows around black holes

I Chattopadhyay, D Ryu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Steady, spherically symmetric, adiabatic accretion and wind flows around nonrotating black
holes were studied for fully ionized, multicomponent fluids, which are described by a …

Acoustic horizons in axially symmetric relativistic accretion

H Abraham, N Bilić, TK Das - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Transonic accretion onto astrophysical objects is a unique example of an analogue black
hole realized in nature. In the framework of acoustic geometry, we study axially symmetric …

Studies of accretion flows around rotating black holes–I. Particle dynamics in a pseudo-Kerr potential

SK Chakrabarti, S Mondal - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
In this series of papers, we shall present a simplistic approach to the study of particle
dynamics, fluid dynamics and numerical simulations of accretion flows and outflows around …

Hysteresis effects and diagnostics of the shock formation in low angular momentum axisymmetric accretion in the Kerr metric

TK Das, B Czerny - New Astronomy, 2012 - Elsevier
The secular evolution of the purely general relativistic low angular momentum accretion flow
around a spinning black hole is shown to exhibit hysteresis effects. This confirms that a …

Evidence for overdensity around zem > 4 quasars from the proximity effect

R Guimaraes, P Petitjean, E Rollinde… - Monthly Notices of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We study the density field around z em> 4 quasars using high-quality medium spectral
resolution Echelle Spectrograph and Imager–Keck spectra (R∼ 4300, signal-to-noise ratio …

Critical properties and stability of stationary solutions in multitransonic pseudo-Schwarzschild accretion

S Chaudhury, AK Ray, TK Das - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
For inviscid, rotational accretion flows, both isothermal and polytropic, a simple dynamical
system analysis of the critical points has given a very accurate mathematical scheme to …

The pattern of accretion flow onto Sgr A

M Moscibrodzka, TK Das, B Czerny - arxiv preprint astro-ph/0604516, 2006 - arxiv.org
The material accreting onto Sgr A* most probably comes from the nearby stars. We analyze
the pattern of this flow at distances of a fraction of a parsec and we argue that the net …

Rotating accretion flows in dimensions: Sonic points, critical points, and photon spheres

Y Koga, T Harada - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We give the formulation and the general analysis of the rotational accretion problem on D-
dimensional spherical spacetime and investigate sonic points and critical points. First, we …