Monday, July 15, 2013

1307.3255 (Andrew King et al.)

SMBH accretion & mergers: removing the symmetries    [PDF]

Andrew King, Chris Nixon
We review recent progress in studying accretion flows on to supermassive black holes (SMBH). Much of this removes earlier assumptions of symmetry and regularity, such as aligned and prograde disc rotation. This allows a much richer variety of effects, often because cancellation of angular momentum allows rapid infall. Potential applications include lower SMBH spins allowing faster mass growth and suppressing gravitational-wave reaction recoil in mergers, gas-assisted SMBH mergers, and near-dynamical accretion in galaxy centres.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3255

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