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Accretion-modified Stars in Accretion Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei: Slowly Transient Appearance

  • Authors: Jian-Min Wang, Jun-Rong Liu, Luis C. Ho, and Pu Du

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 911 L14.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Left: stellar mass black holes (1M–102M) form accretion-modified stars (AMSs) to denote them in AGN accretion disks. Right: the Bondi sphere hosts a BH undergoing hyper-Eddington accretion. Powerful outflows developed from the slim disk of the BH produce strong feedback to the Bondi sphere. The hyperaccretion is halted by the mechanical feedback at the radius ra(∼104 gravitational radii) within interval ta, generating flares from radio to γ-rays (see the text for details). In this paper, we neglect the spins of the Bondi sphere (see a brief discussion in Section 2.2).

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