The outer portion of an accretion disk is examined, taking into account X-ray irradiation within the context of alpha-viscosity. The results show that high and low states are an inherent property of X-ray-irradiated accretion disks. X-ray sources which exhibit transitions characterized by remarkable variations both ...

Abstract. The accretion process onto a magnetized isolated neutron star, which captures material from the interstellar medium, is discussed. The evolutionary track of such a star can be presented as a sequence of four states: ejector, supersonic propeller, subsonic propeller, andsteady accretor. Ishowthatsubsonic propeller ? accretor ...

The authors present a model for the high-low state transition of the X-ray Nova GS 1124-68 (Nova Muscae 1991) observed by Ginga. The model consists of an advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) near the central black hole surrounded by a thin accretion disk. During the rise phase of the outburst, as the mass ...

Previous theoretical studies have found that repeating outbursts can occur in certain regions of an accretion disk due to sudden transitions in time from gravitationally produced turbulence to magnetically produced turbulence. We analyze the disk evolution in a state diagram that plots the mass accretion rate ...

We present a novel method to measure the accretion rate of radio emitting X-ray binaries (XRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGN) independently of the X-ray luminosity. The radio emission of the jet is used as a tracer for the accretion rate and is normalized using sources of known accretion rates: island state ...

We investigate the evolution of a thin viscous disc surrounding a magnetic star, including the spin-down of the star by the magnetic torques it exerts on the disc. The transition from an accreting to a non-accreting state, and the change of the magnetic torque across the corotation radius rc are included in a ...

We investigate the evolution of a thin viscous disc surrounding a magnetic star, including the spin-down of the star by the magnetic torques it exerts on the disc. The transition from an accreting to a non-accreting state, and the change of the magnetic torque across the corotation radius rc are included in a ...

We numerically study the long-term evolution of the accretion disc around the neutron star in a coplanar Be/X-ray binary with a short period and a moderate eccentricity. From three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, we find that the disc evolves through three distinct phases, each characterized by different mass-accretion patterns. In ...

In the last several years, multiwavelength monitoring programs have allowed us to develop a general description of the observational characteristics of accreting black holes as they journey through their outburst cycles. Driven seemingly to a large extent by the accretion rate, these sources display an almost predictable series of physical changes which ...

We propose a ToO observation of a transient black-hole candidate, either known or unknown, during its transition from hard to soft state. This transition, which takes place at high flux levels, encompasses marked changes in the properties of the accretion flow and it includes the time at which the ejection of an ...

A one-zone model is developed for analysis of properties of nuclear shell flashes on accreting degenerate dwarfs and neutron stars. The model provides a description of a steady-state nuclear burning and a linear stability analysis with a small number of algebraic equations. Time evolution of the accreted layer is described with two ...

Contrary to the idea that the X-ray spectral states of accreting black holes and neutron stars are determined by the mass accretion rate and that a transition from the low/hard (LH) state to the high/soft (HS) state is associated with an increase of luminosity, we have ...

We have discovered a spectral transition from the low/hard (LH) state to the high/soft (HS) state when Aquila X-1 was declining in observations made with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) . The 2-200 keV energy flux corresponding to the state transition is 1.1�10-9 ergs cm-2 s-1, an ...

We investigate the model of disk/coronal accretion into a black hole. We show that the inner regions of an accretion disk in X-ray binaries can transform from a cool standard disk to an advection-dominated flow through the known properties of Coulomb interaction in a two-temperature plasma, viscous heating, radiative processes, and thermal conduction. A ...

By analogy to the different accretion states observed in black-hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs), it appears plausible that accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN) undergo a state transition between a radiatively efficient and inefficient accretion flow. If the radiative ...

A neutron star orbiting a stellar-wind star can be used as a probe of wind density and velocity. It is argued that Cen X-3 accretes mass from a stellar wind and that the model previously proposed by the author for supersonic accretion is applicable to Cen X-3. Combining X-ray data of one transition from low to high ...

A substantial body of evidence suggests that most ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are stellar remnant black holes accreting at super-Eddington rates, in a new `ultraluminous' accretion state. Little is known of the astrophysics of this putative state to date. Gladstone et al. (2009) propose a sequence of three ...

2S 0918-549 shows the lowest hard-to-soft transition luminosity in the bright X-ray binaries as seen with all sky monitoring observations in the past few years. We request RXTE monitoring observations every two days to cover at least two flares in this source so that luminosities of spectral state transitions and the mass ...

This is the first of two papers that investigate models of radiation-driven winds from super-critical accretion disks. The main assumptions in the models are that the mass and luminosity in the wind emanate from the radius in the disk where accretion becomes supercritical (the critical radius) and that the wind is spherical. In this first paper the ...

A mechanism for the transition between low/hard, high/soft, and steep power law (SPL) spectral states in black hole X-ray binaries is proposed. The low/hard state is explained by the development of a magnetically arrested accretion disk attributable to the accumulation of a vertical magnetic field in a central ...

A mechanism for the transition between low/hard, high/soft, and steep power law (SPL) spectral states in black hole X-ray binaries is proposed. The low/hard state is explained by the development of a magnetically arrested accretion disk attributable to the accumulation of a vertical magnetic field in a central ...

An interesting feature found in X-ray binary observations is the change between a soft and a hard spectrum. Such transitions were observed for both neutron star and black hole systems. The soft and hard spectral state are understood as originating from accretion via a disk which reaches inward to the compact object, in the first case, ...

We obtained steady solutions of magnetized black hole accretion disks taking into account the gas pressure, magnetic pressure, and radiation pressure. We assumed the bremsstrahlung cooling in the optically thin limit and the black body cooling in the optically thick limit. W assumed that magnetic fields inside the disk are turbulent and dominated by azimuthal component and ...

We calculate upper bounds on the inner radii of geometrically thin accretion disks in galactic black hole systems by relating their rapid variability properties to those of neutron stars. We infer that the inner disk radii do not exhibit large excursions between different spectral states, in contrast with the concept that the disk retreats significantly ...

Using X-ray monitoring observations with the All-Sky Monitor on board the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer and the Burst Alert Telescope on board the Swift, we are able to study the spectral state transitions occurred in about 20 bright persistent and transient black hole and neutron star binaries. We have confirmed that there is a correlation between the X-ray ...

... Understanding of accretion disks, accretion flows, X-ray induced winds, compact obect evolution are all in a primitive state. ...

Context. The number of strong iron K? line detections in Seyfert AGN is clearly growing in the Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku era. The iron emission lines are broad, some are relativistically blurred. These relativistic disk lines have also been observed for galactic black hole X-ray binaries. Thermal components found in hard spectra were interpreted as an indication for a weak inner cool ...

Galactic black holes (GBH) are a class of astrophysical sources with X-ray emission that is powered by accretion from a companion star. An important goal of GBH research is to understand the accretion structure and the nature of the variability of these systems. The GBHs sometimes show significant changes in the X-ray emission properties, and these changes ...

We carry out a time-dependent numerical simulation where both the hydrodynamics and the radiative transfer are coupled together. We consider a two-component accretion flow in which the Keplerian disc is immersed inside an accreting low angular momentum flow (halo) around a black hole. The injected soft photons from the Keplerian disc are reprocessed by the ...

We carry out a time-dependent numerical simulation where both the hydrodynamics and the radiative transfer are coupled together. We consider a two-component accretion flow in which the Keplerian disc is immersed inside an accreting low angular momentum flow (halo) around a black hole. The injected soft photons from the Keplerian disc are reprocessed by the ...

The inner accretion disk geometry of black hole binaries (BHBs) in transition between the low/hard and high/soft states is important for understanding accretion flow around black holes. In the low/hard state a discrepancy exists over whether the cool, optically thick ...

Headland-bay beach equilibrium planform has been a crucial problem abroad to long-term sandy beach evolution and stabilization, extensively applied to forecast long-term coastal erosion evolvement and the influences of coastal engineering as well as long-term coastal management and protection. However, little concern focuses on this in China. The parabolic relationship is the most widely used ...

We propose joint Chandra and HST observations of an extraordinary sample of 12 massive post-starburst galaxies at z=0.4-0.8 that are in the short-lived evolution phase a few 100 Myr after the peak of merger-driven star formation and AGN activity. We will use the data to measure X-ray luminosities, black hole masses, and accretion rates; and with the accurate "clocks" provided ...

We propose joint Chandra and HST observations of an extraordinary sample of 12 massive post-starburst galaxies at z=0.4-0.8 that are in the short-lived evolution phase a few 100 Myr after the peak of merger-driven star formation and AGN activity. We will use the data to measure X-ray luminosities, black hole masses, and accretion rates; and with the accurate "clocks" provided ...

The rotation rate in pre-supernova cores is an important ingredient that can profoundly affect the post-collapse evolution and associated energy release in supernovae and long gamma ray bursts (LGRBs). Previous work has focused on whether the specific angular momentum is above or below the critical value required for the creation of a centrifugally supported disk around a black hole. Here, we ...

We study the evolution of the rotation frequency for accreting compact stars. The discontinuous change of the moment of inertia of a rapidly rotating star due to the possible quark core appearance entails a characteristic change in the spin evolution. Numerical solutions have been performed using a model equation of state describing the deconfinement phase ...

We present in this proceeding some aspects of a model that should explain the spectral state changes observed in microquasars. In this model, ejection is assumed to take place only in the innermost disc region where a large scale magnetic field is anchored. Then, in opposite to conventional ADAF models, the accretion energy can be efficiently converted in ...

In recent years, much effort has been devoted to unravelling the connection between the accretion flow and the jets in accreting compact objects. In the present work, we report new constraints on these issues, through the long-term study of the radio and X-ray behaviour of the black hole candidate H1743-322. This source is known to be one of the 'outliers' ...

We have studied X-ray spectral state transitions that can be seen in the long-term monitoring light curves of bright X-ray binaries from the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) onboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard Swift during a period of five years from 2005 to 2010. We have applied a program to automatically ...

Aims: Cold steady-state disk wind theory from near Keplerian accretion disks requires a large scale magnetic field at near equipartition strength. However the minimum magnetization has never been tested with time dependent simulations. We investigate the time evolution of a Shakura-Sunyaev accretion disk threaded by a weak vertical ...

I present new insights about accretion and ejection physics in low-mass X-ray binaries based on high-resolution Chandra HETGS studies of accretion disk winds in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. First, using 10 years of Chandra observations to probe the long-term connection between accretion disk winds and relativistic jets, I show how ...

We have constructed numerically global solutions of advective accretion disks around black holes that describe a continuous transition between the effectively optically thick outer and optically thin inner disk regions. We have concentrated on models of accretion flows with large mass accretion rates, and we have ...

Galaxy formation is significantly modulated by energy output from supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies which grow in highly efficient luminous quasar phases. The timescale on which black holes transition into and out of such phases is, however, unknown. We present the first measurement of the shutdown timescale for an individual quasar using X-ray observations ...

2D modeling of gas flow structure in a binary system using the modified model on a fine grid has been carried out for the parameters of the classical symbiotic star Z And. The calculations have confirmed the mechanism of quiescent to active state change as a consequence of the transition from the disk accretion to the ...

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galactic black hole binaries (GBHs) represent two classes of accreting black holes. They both contain an accretion disc emitting a thermal radiation, and a non-thermal X-ray emitting 'corona'. GBHs exhibit state transitions, and the spectral states are ...

One of the most intriguing challenges in high-energy astrophysics has been understanding the dynamics of accretion flow onto compact objects. X-ray binaries exhibit many different patterns of accretion flow, manifested as "X- ray states". Various states show dramatically different spectral energy distributions and ...

[and Motivation] State transitions in X-ray binaries are manifestations of instabilities in the accretion in/outflow. Therefore, time dependence in the energetics must to be taken into account to understand such transitions. However, most spectral models assume a static, steady-state scenario, ...

The study focuses on a deterministic model of the surface roughness transition behavior of glaze ice

We present new insights about accretion and ejection physics based on joint RXTE/Chandra HETGS studies of rapid X-ray variability in GRS 1915+105. For the first time, with fast phase-resolved spectroscopy of the ? state, we are able to show that changes in the broadband X-ray spectrum (RXTE) on timescales of seconds are associated with measurable changes ...

We present the root mean square (rms)-intensity diagram for black hole transients. Using observations taken with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, we study the relation between the rms amplitude of the variability and the net count rate during the 2002, 2004 and 2007 outbursts of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4. We find that the rms-flux relation previously observed during the hard ...

One of the remarkable phenomena, characterizing both Galactic and extra-Galactic X-ray binary systems, is the substantial variability of a photon flux, detectable in a very broad range of timescales. For instance, the accretion flow near a black hole event horizon can produce X-ray variability on a millisecond timescale. At the same time aperiodic changes from the extended ...

The state transitions of black hole (BH) X-ray binaries are discussed based on the evolution of large-scale magnetic fields, in which the combination of three energy mechanisms are involved: (1) the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process related to the open field lines connecting a rotating BH with remote astrophysical loads, (2) the magnetic coupling (MC) process ...

Cold steady-state disk wind theory from near Keplerian accretion disks requires a large scale magnetic field at near equipartition strength. However the minimum magnetization has never been tested. We investigate the time evolution of an accretion disk threaded by a weak vertical magnetic field. The strength of the field is such that ...

We investigate the transition of a radiatively inefficient phase of a viscous two temperature accreting flow to a cooling dominated phase and vice versa around black holes. Based on a global sub-Keplerian accretion disk model in steady state, including explicit cooling processes self-consistently, we show that ...

We present the first detailed phase-resolved spectral analysis of a joint Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation of the ? variability class in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. The ? cycle displays a high-amplitude, double-peaked flare that recurs roughly every 50 s and is sometimes referred to as the "heartbeat" oscillation. The spectral and ...

with Dr. Shoji Kato (ITP & Kyoto Univ)I discuss the transition from an optically thick cool Shakura-Sunyaev disk to anoptically thin hot advection-dominated accretion flow at certain radius whichmight give explanations to the low state spectra of black hole X-ray binaries.The main point in our model is the inclusion of the ...

Jan 31, 2005 ... KERRBB is a multi-temperature blackbody model for a thin, steady state, general relativistic accretion disk around a Kerr black hole. ...

... accretional beaches are located at the north and south ends in Fort Story (military) and False Cape State Park (natural). Instead of beach usage, it ...

We present an analysis of the spectral properties observed in X-rays from Neutron Star X-ray binary 4U~1728-34 during transitions between the low and the high luminosity states when electron temperature kT_e of the Compton cloud monotonically decreases from 15 to 2.5 keV. We analyze the transition episodes from this source observed ...

We present an analysis of the spectral properties observed in X-rays from neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1728-34 during transitions between the low- and high-luminosity states when the electron temperature kTe of the Compton cloud monotonically decreases from 15 to 2.5 keV. We analyze the transition episodes from this source observed ...

Three-center energy transfer affords the basic mechanism for a variety of multiphoton processes identified within materials doped with rare earths. Addressing the theory using quantum electrodynamics, general results are obtained for systems in which the fundamental photophysics engages three ions. Distinct cooperative and accretive mechanistic pathways are identified and the ...

This work discusses a black hole accretion disk dynamo model for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) sources of the cosmic X-ray and ..gamma.. ray backgrounds which involves both thermal and nonthermal accretion disk processes around greater than or equal to 10/sup 8/M/sub sun/ Kerr black holes. Before black hole spin-up to the Kerr metric ...

Stellar mass black hole X-ray binaries exhibit X-ray spectral states which also have distinct and characteristic temporal properties. These states are believed to correspond to different accretion disc geometries. We present analysis of two XMM-Newton observations of the ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX)NGC1313 X-1, which reveal that ...

Low-Mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are known to have soft and hard states, like Black Hole Binaries (BHBs). Since LMXBs are similar to BHBs in many respects, comparison between them will help us to understand their accretion mechanisms. With this in mind, we analyzed archival Suzaku data of the recurrent transient LMXB Aql X-1. The data were obtained on 7 ...

The magnetic cataclysmic variable archetype AM Herculis is known to display high and low photometric states, in which it switches from Roche lobe-overflow accretion (high) to wind accretion (low). The origin of this behavior is still unknown (although it is believed to be linked to the presence of starspots located near the L1 point on ...

White dwarfs experience a thermal renaissance when they receive mass from a stellar companion in a binary. For accretion rates < 10 -8 [Special characters omitted.] yr -1 , the freshly accumulated hydrogen/helium envelope ignites in a thermally unstable manner that results in a classical novae (CN) outburst and ejection of material. We have undertaken a theoretical study of ...

We report INTEGRAL observations of X-ray binaries containing a black hole, e.g. GX 339-4, Cyg X-1, IGR J17464-3213 and other X-ray novae. The different spectral states and spectral transitions of these sources are of our major interest. Their broad band spectrum generally exhibits two main components: a soft emission from a cool ...

We explore the properties of cold gravitoturbulent accretion disks-non-fragmenting disks hovering on the verge of gravitational instability (GI)-using a realistic prescription for the effective viscosity caused by gravitational torques. This prescription is based on a direct relationship between the angular momentum transport in a thin accretion disk and ...

Gas disks of spiral galaxies can be described as clumpy accretion disks without a coupling of viscosity to the actual thermal state of the gas. The model description of a turbulent disk consisting of emerging and spreading clumps contains free parameters, which can be constrained by observations of molecular gas, atomic gas, and the star formation rate for ...

In a previous paper, we described new analytic formulae for optically thick supercritical accretion flows (Watarai 2006, hereafter paper 1). Here, we present analytic formulae for optically thin one-temperature accretion flows including the advection-dominated regime, using the ``semi-iterative'' method, described in paper 1. Our analytic formulae have two ...

Our previous theoretical study of the impact of an accreting envelope on the thermal state of an underlying white dwarf (WD) has yielded equilibrium core temperatures, classical nova ignition masses, and thermal luminosities for WDs accreting at time-averaged rates of =10-11 to 10-8 Msolar yr-1. These values are ...

We use new central stellar velocity dispersions and nuclear X-ray and H? luminosities for the Palomar survey of nearby galaxies to investigate the distribution of nuclear bolometric luminosities and Eddington ratios for their central black holes (BHs). This information helps to constrain the nature of their accretion flows and the physical drivers that control the spectral ...

We present the first results on the black-hole candidate XTE J1752-223 from the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) aboard the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on the International Space Station. Including the onset of an outburst reported by the Proportional Counter Array aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer on 2009 October 23, MAXI / GSC has been monitoring this source approximately 10 times per day ...

In theory of accretion disks, angular momentum and mass transfer are associated with the generation of energy through viscous dissipation. In the construction of SED models of protostellar disks, the stellar irradiation is usually assumed to be the dominant heating source. Here we construct a new set of self-consistent analytical disk models by taking into account both sources ...

We consider spherically symmetric accretion of material from an initially homogeneous, uniformly expanding medium onto a Newtonian point mass M. The gas is assumed to evolve adiabatically with a constant adiabatic index F, which we vary over the range ? ? [1, 5/3]. We use a one-dimensional Lagrangian code to follow the spherical infall of material as a function of time. ...

The present study of hypercritical accretion flows onto neutron stars considers steady-state, spherically symmetric flows whose accretion rate range is characterized by the carrying away of gravitational-accretion energy by neutrinos. The models used encompass pair production, radiation diffusion, and general ...

The authors examine the possibility of neutron viscosity as the mechanism responsible for the dissipation of kinetic energy into luminosity in the innermost parts (r < 100 R sub s) of accretion disks surrounding compact objects. They present simplified models of such self-consistent, steady state accretion flows in which the ...

Spherically symmetric, steady state accretion of an ionized hydrogen plasma onto a neutron star is considered for accretion rates which exceed a critical rate at which the Eddington limiting luminosity is produced. The coupled hydrodynamic and frequency integrated, radiative transfer equations are solved for ...

We analyze the RXTE observations of the 2009 outburst of H~1743-322, as well as the observations of the previous five outbursts for comparison. The hardness-intensity diagram (HID) shows a complete counter-clockwise q-track for the 2009 outburst and, interestingly, the track falls in} between a huge one in 2003, with a complete transition to high/soft ...

Solution for a stationary spherically symmetric accretion of the relativistic perfect fluid with an equation of state p(rho) onto the Schwarzschild black hole is presented. This solution is a generalization of Michel solution and applicable to the problem of dark energy accretion. It is shown that accretion of ...

The focus here is on a deterministic model of the surface roughness transition behavior of glaze ice. The initial smooth/rough transition location, bead formation, and the propagation of the transition location are analyzed. Based on the hypothesis that t...

The structure and stability of accretion disks composed of hydrogen-rich matter rotating about a central neutron star have been investigated for known sources of viscosity. Two general classes of solutions have been found. For one class the energy generated in the disk is provided by hydrogen burning, whereas for the other class the gravitational binding energy released by ...

We have assembled a sample of 1187 thermonuclear (type I) X-ray bursts from observations of 48 accreting neutron stars by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, spanning more than 10 years. The sample contains examples of two of the three theoretical ignition regimes (confirmed via comparisons with numerical models) and likely examples of the third. We present a detailed analysis of ...

The building material of the forming Kuiper belt objects is supposed in the model to consist of solid dust material of protosolar cloud fringe regions and H2 O amorphous ice. A spheri-cally symmetric celestial body was being created as a result of accretion. The body's internal structure was determined by the composition and the properties of the accretion ...

We present new thermal equilibrium solutions for optically thin and optically thick disks incorporating magnetic fields. The purpose of this paper is to explain the bright hard state and the bright/slow transition observed in the rising phases of outbursts in black hole candidates. On the basis of the results of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic ...

The dynamics of iron, its thermal state and its phase in the accreting Earth probably played a major

A study of the vapor pressure of carbonic acid and its implications in space. Lorne Loudin, Keene State College Fingerprinting Late Accretion: A study of ...

An experimental study was conducted in the Ohio State University subsonic wind tunnel to measure the

Sep 4, 1998 ... This is because highly stripped ions are transparent to the ... that when the source is in the high luminosity state the accretion is ...

We present self-similar solutions for advection-dominated accretion flows with radial viscous force in the presence of outflows from the accretion flow or infall. The axisymmetric flow is treated in variables integrated over polar sections and the effects of infall and outflows on the accretion flow are parametrized for possible ...

HD101088 is a young binary accreting from a tenuous circumprimary and/or circumsecondary disk despite the apparent lack of a massive dusty circumbinary disk. We propose to observe it with RGS with an exposure of 60 ks to detect the emission lines from the O VII He-like ion and look for potential high-density plasma at the base of the accretion flows. ...