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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 489, 期 1, 页码 699-706出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2201
关键词
accretion; accretion discs; black hole physics; gravitational waves hydrodynamics
资金
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [823823]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [681601]
Gravitational waves can be emitted by accretion discs if they undergo instabilities that generate a time varying mass quadrupole. In this work we investigate the gravitational signal generated by a thick accretion disc of 1M(circle dot) around a static supermassive black hole of 10(6)M(circle dot), assumed to be formed after the tidal disruption of a solar type star. This torus has been shown to be unstable to a global non-axisymmetric hydrodynamic instability, the Papaloizou-Pringle instability, in the case where it is not already accreting and has a weak magnetic field. We start by deriving analytical estimates of the maximum amplitude of the gravitational wave signal, with the aim to establish its detectability by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Then, we compare these estimates with those obtained through a numerical simulation of the torus, made with a 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. Our numerical analysis shows that the measured strain is two orders of magnitude lower than the maximum value obtained analytically. However, accretion discs affected by the Papaloizou-Pringle instability may still be interesting sources for LISA, if we consider discs generated after deeply penetrating tidal disruptions of main-sequence stars of higher mass.
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