GRMHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks

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The most energetic phenomena in the universe are systems powered by gravity through accretion into black holes. Numerical simulations provide a way to investigate the dynamics of these accretion flows directly with far fewer limitations compared to analytic models. Because magnetic fields are fundamentally important for jets and disks, and because we now know that magnetic turbulence accounts for the internal stress, the governing equations are those of compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Accretion disk dynamics can thus be investigated using three-dimensional general relativistic MHD simulation codes. Although it is not yet possible to do fully global time dependent radiation transport in disk models, the observational implications of these simulations can be investigated using simple emission and absorption models coupled with relativistic ray tracing. The time and length-scales involved make such simulations challenging, but results to date have revealed details about time-dependent properties of disks, magnetic disk dynamos, jet launching mechanisms, and the dynamical properties of systems other than the standard thin disk. As the capabilities of computational hardware increase, and the development of advanced numerical codes continues, our theoretical understanding of accretion physics will substantially increase.

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