Simulations of magnetized discs around black holes: Effects of black hole spin, disc thickness and magnetic field geometry

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 752-782

  Penna, Robert F ^a   McKinney, Jonathan C ^b   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Tchekhovskoy, Alexander ^a   Shafee, Rebecca ^c   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Gravitation; Hydrodynamics; Methods: numerical; MHD

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ASPECT RATIO; BLACK HOLES; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; STARS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; CIRCULAR ORBIT; HOLE SPIN; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MAGNETIC-FIELD GEOMETRY; METHOD: NUMERICAL; THIN DISK;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 77958021729     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17170.x     Document Type: Article

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