Simulating black hole white dwarf encounters

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2008.01.031zbMATH Open1197.83015arXiv0801.1582OpenAlexW2079104852MaRDI QIDQ711206FDOQ711206

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, M. Dan, Stephan Rosswog, W. Raphael Hix

Publication date: 25 October 2010

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The existence of supermassive black holes lurking in the centers of galaxies and of stellar binary systems containing a black hole with a few solar masses has been established beyond reasonable doubt. The idea that black holes of intermediate masses ($sim1000$ msun) may exist in globular star clusters has gained credence over recent years but no conclusive evidence has been established yet. An attractive feature of this hypothesis is the potential to not only disrupt solar-type stars but also compact white dwarf stars. In close encounters the white dwarfs can be sufficiently compressed to thermonuclearly explode. The detection of an underluminous thermonuclear explosion accompanied by a soft, transient X-ray signal would be compelling evidence for the presence of intermediate mass black holes in stellar clusters. In this paper we focus on the numerical techniques used to simulate the entire disruption process from the initial parabolic orbit, over the nuclear energy release during tidal compression, the subsequent ejection of freshly synthesized material and the formation process of an accretion disk around the black hole.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1582

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesreactive flowsnuclear reactionsmeshfree Lagrangian hydrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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• THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PERTURBED ACCRETION DISK AROUND THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE
• Shock waves in tidally compressed stars by massive black holes
• 3D Meshfree Magnetohydrodynamics

Uses Software

• MAGMA

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