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Electromagnetic Observables of Weakly Collisional Black Hole Accretion

  • Authors: Vedant Dhruv, Cora Prather, Mani Chandra, Abhishek V. Joshi, Charles F. Gammie

Vedant Dhruv et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 993 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Snapshot from an EGRMHD, MAD, and a* = 15/16 simulation. (a) Poloidal (r, θ) slices of fluid rest-mass density (left) and dimensionless temperature (right). (b) Poloidal slices of heat flux normalized by the free-streaming value (left) and pressure anisotropy normalized by magnetic energy density (right). The black contour marks σ = 1, which separates the accretion disk from the magnetically dominated jet. (c) Mass-weighted distribution of pressure anisotropy as a function of β within r ≤ 20rg for the snapshot shown in panels (a) and (b). The black dotted (dashed) lines indicate the mirror (firehose) instability threshold.

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