期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 755, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/51
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies: nuclei; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
资金
- NSF [PHY-1114374, PHY-0722703, DMS-0820923, AST-1028087]
- NASA [NNX11AI49G, 00001944]
- [AST-1028111]
- [PHY-0929114]
- [PHY-0969855]
- [PHY-0903782]
- [OCI-0832606]
- [DRL-1136221]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1028087] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1028111] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0969855] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1229173, 903782] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [832606] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We have simulated the magnetohydrodynamic evolution of a circumbinary disk surrounding an equal-mass binary comprising two non-spinning black holes during the period in which the disk inflow time is comparable to the binary evolution time due to gravitational radiation. Both the changing spacetime and the binary orbital evolution are described by an innovative technique utilizing high-order post-Newtonian approximations. Prior to the beginning of the inspiral, the structure of the circumbinary disk is predicted well by extrapolation from Newtonian results: a gap of roughly two binary separation radii is cleared, and matter piles up at the outer edge of this gap as inflow is retarded by torques exerted by the binary; the accretion rate is roughly half its value at large radius. During inspiral, the inner edge of the disk initially moves inward in coordination with the shrinking binary, but-as the orbital evolution accelerates-the inward motion of the disk edge falls behind the rate of binary compression. In this stage, the binary torque falls substantially, but the accretion rate decreases by only 10%-20%. When the binary separation is tens of gravitational radii, the rest-mass efficiency of disk radiation is a few percent, suggesting that supermassive binary black holes could be very luminous at this stage of their evolution. Inner disk heating is modulated at a beat frequency comparable to the binary orbital frequency. However, a disk with sufficient surface density to be luminous may be optically thick, suppressing periodic modulation of the luminosity.
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