期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 501, 期 4, 页码 4722-4747出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3430
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; black hole physics; radiative transfer
资金
- European Research Council (ERC) SynergyGrant 'BlackHoleCam: Imaging the EventHorizon of Black Holes' [610058]
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
Accreting black holes often display a dark central region called the black hole shadow, conveying information about the black hole's mass and spin. The observed central brightness depression, or image shadow, can differ from the black hole shadow due to factors such as evacuation of the innermost region of the accretion flow and obscuration by optically thick regions. The study found that a compact and optically thin emission region allows for measurement of the black hole shadow size with an accuracy of 5%, indicating that certain conditions must be met for accurate measurements.
Accreting black holes tend to display a characteristic dark central region called the black hole shadow, which depends only on space-time/observer geometry and which conveys information about the black hole's mass and spin. Conversely, the observed central brightness depression, or image shadow, additionally depends on the morphology of the emission region. In this paper, we investigate the astrophysical requirements for observing a meaningful black hole shadow in GRMHD-based models of accreting black holes. In particular, we identify two processes by which the image shadow can differ from the black hole shadow: evacuation of the innermost region of the accretion flow, which can render the image shadow larger than the black hole shadow, and obscuration of the black hole shadow by optically thick regions of the accretion flow, which can render the image shadow smaller than the black hole shadow, or eliminate it altogether. We investigate in which models the image shadows of our models match their corresponding black hole shadows, and in which models the two deviate from each other. We find that, given a compact and optically thin emission region, our models allow for measurement of the black hole shadow size to an accuracy of 5 per cent. We show that these conditions are generally met for all MAD simulations we considered, as well as some of the SANE simulations.
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