2021
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.06882
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Multi-band light curves from eccentric accreting supermassive black hole binaries

Abstract: We use long-run, high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations to compute the multi-wavelength light curves (LCs) from thermal disk emission around accreting equal-mass supermassive black hole (BH) binaries, with a focus on revealing binary eccentricity. LCs are obtained by modeling the disk thermodynamics with an adiabatic equation of state, a local blackbody cooling prescription, and corrections to approximate the effects of radiation pressure. We find that in general, the optical and infrared LCs are in-phase w… Show more

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“…where Ω b is the binaryʼs orbital frequency). The choice of t sink does not significantly alter the results for circular orbits (Moody et al 2019;Westernacher-Schneider et al 2021;J. Zrake et al 2022, in preparation), but for robustness we include a brief exploration of the slow-sink limit with t b sink 1 = W in Section 3.2.…”
Section: Simulation Setupmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…where Ω b is the binaryʼs orbital frequency). The choice of t sink does not significantly alter the results for circular orbits (Moody et al 2019;Westernacher-Schneider et al 2021;J. Zrake et al 2022, in preparation), but for robustness we include a brief exploration of the slow-sink limit with t b sink 1 = W in Section 3.2.…”
Section: Simulation Setupmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The more chaotic nature of the accretion shown in Figure 10 at high Mach numbers is visible in the periodograms, as peaks become scattered and more broad. It has been recently suggested, based on analysis of light curves in non-isothermal circumbinary disc simulations, that the chaotic nature of the accretion rate at realistically high Mach numbers for binary SMBHs may drown out any periodicity other than Doppler modulation (Westernacher-Schneider et al 2021).…”
Section: Variabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Los intentos anteriores de modelar observables electromagnéticos de SMBHB se han basado en simulaciones Newtonianas viscosas 2-D (Farris et al, 2015a,b;Tang et al, 2018;Westernacher-Schneider et al, 2021), simulaciones GRHD en 2-D sin viscosidad de minidiscos aislados en un espaciotiempo de Kerr, es decir, sin la perturbación gravitatoria causada por el agujero negro compañero (Ryan & MacFadyen, 2017) y simulaciones GRMHD en 3-D (d'Ascoli et al, 2018).…”
Section: Comparación Con Trabajos Previosunclassified
“…En nuestras simulaciones, la temperatura efectiva está directamente relacionada con la tasa de disipación real (por choques y turbulencia). Téngase en cuenta que Westernacher-Schneider et al (2021) se esfuerzan por dar cuenta de este efecto, aunque suponen una tasa de acreción muy alta, 10 ṀEdd .…”
Section: Comparación Con Trabajos Previosunclassified