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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 109, 期 22, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.221102
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- NSF [PHY-0963136, AST-1002667, OCI-1053575]
- NASA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [NNX11AE11G, NNX09AO64H]
- NASA [110718, NNX09AO64H, NNX11AE11G, 148375] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1002667] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [963136] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We present results from the first fully general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of an equal-mass black-hole binary (BHBH) in a magnetized, circumbinary accretion disk. We simulate both the pre- and postdecoupling phases of a BHBH-disk system and both cooling and no-cooling' gas flows. Prior to decoupling, the competition between the binary tidal torques and the effective viscous torques due to MHD turbulence depletes the disk interior to the binary orbit. However, it also induces a two-stream accretion flow and mildly relativistic polar outflows from the BHs. Following decoupling, but before gas fills the low-density hollow surrounding the remnant, the accretion rate is reduced, while there is a prompt electromagnetic luminosity enhancement following merger due to shock heating and accretion onto the spinning BH remnant. This investigation, though preliminary, previews more detailed general relativistic, MHD simulations we plan to perform in anticipation of future, simultaneous detections of gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from a merging BHBH-disk system.
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