Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, 3 figures, to appear in "Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", eds H. Kleinert, R.
Scientific paper
We posit that accreting compact objects, including stellar mass black holes and neutron stars as well as supermassive black holes, may undergo extended periods of accretion during which the angular momentum of the disk at large scales is misaligned with that of the compact object. In such a scenario, Lense-Thirring precession caused by the rotating compact object can dramatically affect the disk. In this presentation we describe results from a three-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of an MRI turbulent disk accreting onto a tilted rapidly rotating black hole. For this case, the disk does not achieve the commonly described Bardeen-Petterson configuration; rather, it remains nearly planar, undergoing a slow global precession. Accretion from the disk onto the hole occurs predominantly through two opposing plunging streams that start from high latitudes with respect to both the black-hole and disk midplanes. This is a consequence of the non-sphericity of the gravitational spacetime of the black hole.
Anninos Peter
Blaes Omer M.
Fragile Chris P.
Salmonson Jay D.
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