Circumbinary MHD Accretion into Inspiraling Binary Black Holes

Scott C. Noble1, Bruno C. Mundim1, Hiroyuki Nakano1, Julian H. Krolik2, Manuela Campanelli1, Yosef Zlochower1, Nicolás Yunes3


1 Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623
2 Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
3 Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717



Paper:

The paper has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. Below are links the paper in different on-line versions:

Movies:

The quantities in the movies are expressed in code units and so are arbitrary, though their magnitudes relative to one another are not, of course. Length scales of the moves are in units of a(t=0) = 20M, where M is the total mass of the black holes, and a(t) is the separation of the binary over time. The time of a movie's frame is specified at the top of the frame and is given in units of M. The black dashed line denotes r = 2.3 a(0) = 46M, where the lump develops.

Quantity RunIn
(tinspiral = 40000M) 		RunSS
(tinspiral = ∞ )
Surface Density
(Log10 color scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Surface Density
(Linear color scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Surface Brightness
(Log10 color scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Surface Brightness
(Linear color scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Magnetic Pressure (height-integrated)
(Log10 color scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Magnetic Pressure (height-integrated)
(Linear color scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Formats: [AVI] [MP4]
Surface Density
(azimuthally averaged)
(RunIn = grey, RunSS = black)
(Linear scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4] [MPG]
Luminosity, radial gradient
(RunIn = grey, RunSS = black)
(Linear scale)
Formats: [AVI] [MP4] [MPG]

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