Modeling Reconstructed Images of Jets Launched by SANE Super-Eddington Accretion Flows around SMBHs with the ngEHT

dc.contributor.authorCurd, Brandon
dc.contributor.authorEmami, Razieh
dc.contributor.authorRoelofs, Freek
dc.contributor.authorAnantua, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-22T14:35:40Z
dc.date.available2022-12-22T14:35:40Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-13
dc.date.updated2022-12-22T14:35:41Z
dc.description.abstractTidal disruption events (TDEs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a potential laboratory to study super-Eddington accretion disks and sometimes result in powerful jets or outflows which may shine in the radio and sub-millimeter bands. In this work, we modeled the thermal synchrotron emission of jets by general relativistic radiation magneto-hydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of a BH accretion disk/jet system which assumed the TDE resulted in a magnetized accretion disk around a BH accreting at ∼12–25 times the Eddington accretion rate. Through synthetic observations with the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) and an image reconstruction analysis, we demonstrate that TDE jets may provide compelling targets within the context of the models explored in this work. In particular, we found that jets launched by a SANE super-Eddington disk around a spin a∗ = 0.9 reach the ngEHT detection threshold at large distances (up to 100 Mpc in this work). A two-temperature plasma in the jet or weaker jets, such as a spin a∗ = 0 model, requires a much closer distance, as we demonstrate detection at 10 Mpc for limiting cases of a∗ = 0, R = 1 or a∗ = 0.9, R = 20. We also demonstrate that TDE jets may appear as superluminal sources if the BH is rapidly rotating and the jet is viewed nearly face on.
dc.description.departmentPhysics and Astronomy
dc.identifierdoi: 10.3390/galaxies10060117
dc.identifier.citationGalaxies 10 (6): 117 (2022)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/1473
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectaccretion disk
dc.subjectrelativistic Jet
dc.subjectGRMHD
dc.titleModeling Reconstructed Images of Jets Launched by SANE Super-Eddington Accretion Flows around SMBHs with the ngEHT
dc.typeArticle

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