Correlations of Active Galactic Nuclei with Microquasars

Correlations of active galactic nuclei （AGNs） with microquasars are discussed based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek （BZ） and magnetic coupling （MC） processes （CEBZMC） in black hole （BH） accretion disk. The proportions of several quantities of BH systems for both AGNs and microquasars are derived by combining the observational data with CEBZMC. It is shown that the square of the magnetic field at the BH horizon is inversely proportional to the BH mass, while the accretion rate of the disk is proportional to the BH mass. In addition, the very steep emissivity indexes from the recent XMM-Newton observations of the nearby bright Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 and the microquasars XTE J1650-500 are well fitted by considering the MC effects on the disk radiation. These results suggest strongly the correlations of A GNs with microquasars.     

Correlations of Active Galactic Nuclei with Microquasars

Correlations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with microquasars are discussed based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and magnetic coupling (MC) processes (CEBZMC) in black hole (BH) accretion disk.The proportions of several quantities of BH systems for both AGNs and microquasars are derived by combining the observational data with CEBZMC. It is shown that the square of the magnetic field at the BH horizon is inversely proportional to the BH mass, while the accretion rate of the disk is proportional to the BH mass. In addition, the very steep emissivity indexes from the recent XMM-Newton observations of the nearby bright Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 and the microquasars XTE J1650-500 are well fitted by considering the MC effects on the disk radiation. These results suggest strongly the correlations of A GNs with microquasars.     

Temperature Profile of Black Hole Accretion Disc with Magnetic Coupling

Two new mapping relations between the angular coordinate on the black hole (BH) horizon and radialcoordinate on the disc are given according to the requirement of general relativity and Maxwell‘s equations, and theeffects of magnetic coupling (MC) on temperature of accretion disc are investigated by comparing with pure accretion.It is shown that the MC effects on the temperature profile are related intimately to the BH spin, and the influenceon the peak value of disc temperature based on the modified mapping relations is not as great as that based on thelinear mapping.The peak value and the corresponding radius of peak value ring of disc temperature do not increasemonotonically as the increasing spin of BH, each containing a maximum for the fast-spinning BH. The value ranges ofthe bolometric luminosity and color temperature of the disc are both extended by the MC effects.     

磁场对黑洞吸积盘的能量提取及其天体物理应用

考虑到螺旋不稳定性的影响, 提出了一种黑洞磁层的新磁场位形(NCMF). 其中涉及到磁场提取能量的三种机制: (1) Blandford-Znajek (BZ)过程; (2)磁耦合(MC)过程; (3) 通过开磁力线联系吸积盘和天体物理负载,并提取吸积盘的旋转能量新机制(文中称为DL过程). 利用两类等效电路导出上述三种提能机制的功率和力矩的表达式. 结果表明,在新磁场位形中提能功率和效率比未考虑螺旋不稳定性的磁场位形有所增大,新磁场位形导出的非常陡的发射率指数可以拟合XMM-Newton天文卫星对邻近的明亮的Seyfert 1星系MCG-6-30-15的观测结果.     

Two Mechanisms for Extracting Energy and Angular Momentum from a Rotating Black Hole

Two mechanisms of extracting energy and angular momentum from a rotating black hole, the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process and magnetic coupling (MC) of a rotating black hole (BH) with the surrounding accretion disk, are discussed in detail by using a modified equivalent circuit. We obtain the same value for the BZ power as given by Lee. The strength of the power and torque produced by the rotating BH in the BZ process are compared with those in MC process. In addition, entropy production on the BH horizon due to the BZ process and that due to MC process are compared and discussed also by using the modified equivalent circuit.     

A toy model for magnetized neutrino-dominated accretion flows

In this paper, we present a simplified model for a magnetized neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) in which the effect of black hole (BH) spin is taken into account by adopting a set of relativistic correction factors, and the magnetic field is parameterized as β, the ratio of the magnetic pressure to the total pressure. It is found that the disc properties are sensitive to the values of the BH spin and β, and more energy can be extracted from NDAFs by using a faster spin and lower β.

     

A Toy Model for Magnetic Field Configurations in Black Hole Accretion Discs

We discuss the feature of the magnetic field configuration arising from double counter oriented electric currentrings in the accretion disc around a Kerr black hole （BH）. We discuss the relevant physical quantities corresponding to this configuration： （1） the power and torque transferred by the large-scale magnetic field, （2） the angular momentum and energy fluxes transferred from the BIt to the inner disc, （3） the radiation flux from the disc. In addition, we discuss the possibility that the closed magnetic field anchored at the disc probably evolves to the open magnetic field, which is helpful to produce the jet from the disc.     

The Pulsational Instability of Non-Isothermal Magnetized Accretion Disk with Self-Gravity in the Transition Zone

By analyzing the fifth-order dispersion relation, the influence of coupled magnetic field and self-gravity on the pulsational instability of gas pressure dominated accretion disk is investigated. Our main results are that the viscous modes become more stable with the increase of self-gravity, magnetized field and viscosity, while they enhance the instabilities of acoustic modes. The effect of self-gravity to the instability is much greater than that of magnetic field in transition zone of the accretion disk. Especially, the self-gravity affects the thermal-modes and acoustic modes strongly. Finally, we discuss our results.     

Extracting Energy Magnetically from Plunging Region of Black-Hole Accretion Disk

An analytical expression for the jet power extracted from the plunging region between a black hole (BH)horizon and the inner edge of the disk (hereafter the PL power) is derived based on an improved equivalent circuit in BH magnetosphere with a mapping relation between the radial coordinate of the plunging region and that of the remote astrophysical load.It is shown that the PL power is of great importance in explaining jet power and dominates over the BZ and DL powers for a wide value range of the BH spin.In addition,we show that the PL power derived in our model can be fitted with the strong jet powers of several 3CR FR I radio galaxies,which cannot be explained by virtue of the BZ mechanism.Furthermore,the condition for negative energy of the accreting particles in the plunging region is discussed with the validity of the second law of BH thermodynamics.     

Effects of Lorentz Breaking on the Accretion onto a Schwarzschild-like Black Hole

We formulate and solve the problem of spherically symmetric, steady state, adiabatic accretion onto a Schwarzschild-like black hole obtained recently. We derive the general analytic expressions for the critical points, the critical velocity, the critical speed of sound, and subsequently the mass accretion rate. The case for polytropic gas is discussed in detail. We find the parameter characterizing the breaking of Lorentz symmetry will slow down the mass accretion rate, while has no effect on the gas compression and the temperature profile below the critical radius and at the event horizon.     

Radio core dominance of Fermi/LAT-detected AGNs

We present a sample of 4388 AGNs with available radio core-dominance parameters—defined as the ratio of the core flux densities to the extended ones, R = S_core/S_ext.—which includes 630 Fermi-detected AGNs from the fourth source catalog(4FGL) of the Fermi Large Area Telescope(Fermi/LAT);the rest are non-Fermi-detected AGNs. In our sample, 584 blazars are Fermi-detected and 1310 are not. The sample also contains other subclasses, such as Seyferts, Fanaroff-Riley I/II galaxies, and normal galaxies.We investigate various properties of the Fermi-detected and non-Fermi-detected AGNs by using core-dominance parameters,capitalizing on a previous study which showed that R is a good indicator of beaming. We then calculate radio spectral indices for the whole sample, and adopt γ-ray-photon indices for the Fermi AGNs from the 4FGL catalog to discuss the properties of different subclasses. We obtain a relation between the core-dominance parameters and the radio spectral indices for both Fermi and non-Fermi sources, assuming a two-component model in the radio band. Our previous study ruled out the assumption that the core-dominance parameters and radio spectral indices are quite different for different AGN subclasses. This holds not only for Fermi sources but also for non-Fermi sources. In particular, R is, on average, greater for the former AGNs than for the latter.In this study, we enlarge our sample with available values of R to 4388 AGNs, and the obtained conclusions are consistent with our previous study. We assume that the same two-component model holds for the γ-ray band as for the radio band, and therefore,adopt the same relation between the core-dominance parameters and the γ-ray-photon indices for Fermi AGNs. Our fitting results indicate that the γ-ray emissions of Fermi blazars originate mainly from the jet, and therefore, we conclude that the Fermi blazars are beamed.     

Accretion onto a Kerr black hole in the presence of a dipole magnetic field

We analyze the accretion of charged matter onto a rotating black hole immersed in an aligned dipolar magnetic field. We specialize to motion in the equatorial plane and calculate the ‘Keplerian’ angular momentum distribution, the marginally stable and marginally bound orbits, and the efficiency of mass-to-energy conversion as functions of the angular momentum of the black hole and of the product of the dipole moment and the charge of the infalling matter. Although the detailed results are quite different from those previously obtained in the case of an uniform magnetic field, the astrophysically relevant results are very similar; when hydrodynamical accretion is considered, these effects of the magnetic field are always very small. But for test particles the efficiency can be significantly increased for limited ranges of the parameters.     

Black hole binaries and microquasars

This is a general review Oil the observations and physics of black hole X-ray binaries and microquasars, with the emphasize on recent developments in the high energy regime. The focus is put on understanding the accretion flows and measuring the parameters of black holes in them. It includes mainly two parts： i） Brief review of several recent review article on this subject; ii） Further development on several topics, including black hole spin measurements, hot accretion flows, corona formation, state transitions and thermal stability of standard think disk. This is thus not a regular bottom-up approach, which I feel not necessary at this stage. Major effort is made in making and incorporating from many sources useful plots and illustrations, in order to make this article more comprehensible to non-expert readers. In the end I attempt to make a unification scheme on the accretion-outflow （wind/jet） connections of all types of aecreting BHs of all accretion rates and all BH mass scales, and finally provide a brief outlook.     

Comparison of thermodynamic behaviors of two regular-AdS black holes

Considering the negative cosmological constant of an anti-de Sitter (AdS) background as a positive thermodynamic pressure in the extended phase space, we investigate the P−υ critical behavior and of the cooling–heating phase transition of the regular Hayward-AdS (HAdS) black hole (BH), and compare the difference of some thermodynamic processes in both the HAdS BH and the Bardeen-AdS (BAdS) BH. We found that the phase transition of the BAdS BH tends to be more the van der Waals (vdW) phase transition. For the cooling–heating phase transition, we obtained the inversion curves of the HAdS BH are always higher than the BAdS BH under the same pressure and magnetic charge. We also compare the smallest existence mass, the zero-temperature remnant, and the critical magnetic charge for these two BHs. The results suggested that the inner horizon and the outer horizon of the Hayward BH are easier to merge, and the singularity is easier to expose.     

Quantum information paradox: Real or fictitious?

One of the outstanding puzzles of theoretical physics is whether quantum information indeed gets lost in the case of black hole (BH) evaporation or accretion. Let us recall that quantum mechanics (QM) demands an upper limit on the acceleration of a test particle. On the other hand, it is pointed out here that, if a Schwarzschild BH exists, the acceleration of the test particle would blow up at the event horizon in violation of QM. Thus the concept of an exact BH is in contradiction with QM and quantum gravity (QG). It is also reminded that the mass of a BH actually appears as an integration constant of Einstein equations. And it has been shown that the value of this integration constant is actually zero! Thus even classically, there cannot be finite mass BHs though zero mass BH is allowed. It has been further shown that during continued gravitational collapse, radiation emanating from the contracting object gets trapped within it by the runaway gravitational field. As a consequence, the contracting body attains a quasi-static state where outward trapped radiation pressure gets balanced by inward gravitational pull and the ideal classical BH state is never formed in a finite proper time. In other words, continued gravitational collapse results in an ‘eternally collapsing object’ which is a ball of hot plasma and which is asymptotically approaching the true BH state with M = 0 after radiating away its entire mass energy. And if we include QM, this contraction must halt at a radius suggested by the highest QM acceleration. In any case no event horizon (EH) is ever formed and in reality, there is no quantum information paradox.     

Kiselev黑洞的热力学性质和物质吸积特性

本文考虑带有黑洞视界和宇宙视界的Kiselev时空.研究以黑洞视界和宇宙视界为边界的系统的热力学性质.统一地给出了两个系统的热力学第一定律;在黑洞视界半径远小于宇宙视界半径的情况下,近似地计算了通过宇宙视界和黑洞视界的热能.然后,探讨Kiselev时空的物质吸积特性.在吸积能量密度正比于背景能量密度的条件下给出黑洞的吸积率,讨论了黑洞吸积率与暗能量态方程参数的关系.     

Magnetic Reconnection in the Accretion-Disc Corona of a Compact Star

We propose a new model for the magnetosphere of a rotating compact star with an accretion disc in the case where the magnetic axis of the star is not perpendicular to the rotation axis. We estimate the values of the magnetic field and its gradient in the accretion-disc corona. Then these estimates are used as the initial data for developing an analytical model of a reconnecting current sheet and evaluating its parameters and the energy release in the accretion disc corona. It is shown that the magnetic reconnection can contribute essentially to the X-ray radiation observed from compact stars.     

Dynamics of the flute instability in accretion disks of AGN

A new model for the accretion flows onto black holes is suggested. The model provides the high-frequency radiation from AGNs. The possibility of plasma retention by the magnetic field is discussed. It is shown that due to development of the flute instability the region where the magnetic and kinetic pressures are equal to each other can be located farther from the central object than the last stable Kepplerian orbit.Published from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 34–38, January, 1996.     

Magnetized hypermassive neutron-star collapse: a central engine for short gamma-ray bursts

A hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) is a possible transient formed after the merger of a neutron-star binary. In the latest axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity, we find that a magnetized HMNS undergoes "delayed" collapse to a rotating black hole (BH) as a result of angular momentum transport via magnetic braking and the magnetorotational instability. The outcome is a BH surrounded by a massive, hot torus with a collimated magnetic field. The torus accretes onto the BH at a quasisteady accretion rate [FORMULA: SEE TEXT]; the lifetime of the torus is approximately 10 ms. The torus has a temperature [FORMULA: SEE TEXT], leading to copious ([FORMULA: SEE TEXT]) thermal radiation that could trigger a fireball. Therefore, the collapse of a HMNS is a promising scenario for generating short-duration gamma-ray bursts and an accompanying burst of gravitational waves and neutrinos.     

Optically—thick accretion discs with advection

The structures of optically-thick accretion discs with radial advection have been investigated by the iteration and integration algorithms. The advective cooling term changes mostly the inner part of disc solution, and even results in an optically-thick advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF). Three distinct branches－the outer Shakura－Sunyaev disc (SSD), the inner ADAF and the middle transition layer－are found for a super-Eddington disc. The SSD－ADAF transition radius can be estimated as 18(\dot{M}/\dot{M}_E)R_G where R_G is the Schwarzschild radius, \dot{M} is the mass accretion rate and \dot{M}_E is the Eddington accretion rate. SSD solutions calculated with the iteration and integration methods are identical, while ADAF solutions obtained by these two methods differ greatly. Detailed algorithms and their differences have been analysed. The iteration algorithm is not self-consistent, since it implies that the dimensionless advection factor ξ is invariant, but in the inner ADAF region the variation of ξ is not negligible. The integration algorithm is always effective for the whole region of an optically-thick disc if the accretion rate is no smaller than 10^-4\dot{M}_E. For optically-thin discs, the validity of these two algorithms is different. We suggest that the integration method be employed to calculate the global solution of a disc model without assuming ξ to be a constant. We also discuss its application to the emergent continuum spectrum in order to explain observational facts.