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ELECTRON-POSITRON PAIRS IN ACCRETION DISKS

  • Shin, Mine-Shige;Kusunose, Masaaki
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.265-272
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    • 1993
  • Recent X-ray observations of the accretion disks in stellar black hole candidates have revealed rather complex behavior, which cannot be fully described by the simple picture of the standard disk model. In this paper, therefore, we discuss the effects of e+e- pair creation on the structure and the stability of hot accretion disks, aiming at the thorough understanding of emission properties of X-ray binaries containing black holes.

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MACDONALD-THORNE 자기권의 GRAD-SHAFRANOV 방정식 (THE GRAD-SHAFRANOV EQUATION IN THE MACDONALD-THORNE MAGNETOSPHERE)

  • 박석재
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.57-60
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    • 1999
  • We derive the Grad-Shafranov equation in the Macdonald-Thorne magnetosphere of the super-massive black hole in an active galactic nucleus. Our major assumption is that the plasma velocity is not only toroidal but also poloidal. As a result, we get the correction terms which are related to the poloidal motion of plasma like electrodynamic jets.

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New Instabilities in Accretion Flows onto Black Holes

  • MOLTENI D.;FAUCI F.;GERARDI G.;BISIKALO D.;KUZNETSOV O.;ACHARYA K.;CHAKRABARTI S.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제34권4호
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    • pp.247-249
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    • 2001
  • The accretion disks are usually supposed symmetric to reflection on the Z=0 plane. Asymmetries in the flow are be ver-y small in the vicinity of the compact accretor. However their existence can have a important role in the case of subkeplerian accretion flows onto black holes. These flows lead to strong heating and even to the formation of shocks close to the centrifugal barrier. Large asymmetries are due to the development of the KH instability triggered by the small turbulences at the layer separating the incoming flow from the out coming shocked flow. The consequence of this phenomenon is the production of asymmetric outflows of matter and quasi periodic oscillations of the inner disk regions up and down the Z=0 plane.

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중력파 천문학 (Gravitational-Wave Astronomy)

  • Kim, Chunglee
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제41권1호
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    • pp.31.3-31.3
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    • 2016
  • Exploring a universe with gravitational waves (GWs) was only theoretical expectation for long time. In September 2015, the Laser Interferometer GW Observatory (LIGO) first detected GWs emitted from the collision of two stellar-mass black holes in cosmological distance (1.3 billion light years) on Earth. This confirms the existence of black-hole binary mergers, and further, opens a new field of GW astronomy. We begin our discussion with a list of important GW sources that can be detectable on Earth by large-scale laser interferometers such as LIGO. Focusing on compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes, we then discuss possible research in the context of GW astronomy. By coordinating with existing observatories, searching for electromagnetic waves or particles from astronomical objects, around the world, multi-messenger astronomy for the universe's most cataclysmic phenomena (e.g. gamma-ray bursts) will be available in the near future.

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A comparison of single-epoch black hole masses at z>0.5

  • Karouzos, M.;Woo, Jong-Hak;Matsuoka, Kenta;Onken, Christopher;Kollmeier, Juna;Park, Dawoo;Nagao, Tohru
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제40권1호
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    • pp.42.1-42.1
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    • 2015
  • Accurately estimating black hole (BH) masses at high redshifts is imperative in the current and future era of large-area extragalactic spectroscopic surveys. We present an extension of existing comparisons between rest-frame UV and optical virial BH mass estimators to intermediate redshifts, lower luminosities, and lower BH masses, comparable to the local $H{\beta}$ reverberation-mapping sample. We use data from the AGES survey and also newly acquired near-infrared spectra from the FMOS instrument on Subaru telescope for 89 broad-lined active galaxies at redshifts between 0.5 and 1.6. We focus on the MgII, CIV, and CIII broad emission lines and compare them to both $H{\alpha}$ and $H{\beta}$, using two different prescriptions to describe their emission profile width. We confirm that MgII shows a tight correlation with $H{\alpha}$, with a scatter of ~0.25 dex. The CIV and CIII estimators can be considered viable virial mass estimators, despite large scatter values. We combine our dataset with previous high redshift and high luminosity CIV and CIII measurements from the literature and we calculate a scatter of $\sim0.4$ dex and an offset to the 1:1 relation consistent with 0 for the combined sample. This updated comparison spans a total of 4 decades in BH mass, a much wider range than any previous individual study.

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