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Unlocking the Quasiperiodic Eruption Mystery: Star–Disk Collisions in Realistic Active Galactic Nucleus Disks

  • Authors: Zhaohuan Zhu, 照寰 朱, Xiaoshan Huang, 小珊 黄, Yan-Fei Jiang, 燕飞 姜, Shunquan Huang, 顺权 黄

Zhaohuan Zhu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Vertical profiles of the disk density ρ, gas temperature T, radiation-to-gas pressure ratio Prad/Pgas, and magnetic-to-gas pressure ratio Pmag/Pgas after scaling to a ﹩20 \% \,{\dot{M}}_{{\rm{Edd}}}﹩ accretion rate disk around a 106 M⊙ black hole. Angle brackets denote azimuthal averages. The vertical dotted blue lines mark the locations where the electron-scattering optical depth integrated from the disk surface reaches τes = 1.

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