Disks around merging binary black holes: From GW150914 to supermassive black holes

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity of disk accretion onto nonspinning black hole binaries with mass ratio q = 29/36. We survey different disk models which differ in their scale height, total size and magnetic field to quantify the robustness of previous simulations...

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Main Authors: Khan, Abid, Paschalidis, Vasileios, Ruiz, Milton, Shapiro, Stuart L.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Astron, Theoret Astrophys Program
Language:en
Published: AMER PHYSICAL SOC 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627161
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/627161