flash -light on the ring : hydrodynamic simulations of expanding supernova shells near supermassive black holes
flash -light on the ring : hydrodynamic simulations of expanding supernova shells near supermassive black holes
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环上的闪光灯:超大质量黑洞附近膨胀的超新星壳的流体动力学模拟
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stab3723
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Vermot, P
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作者:
Barna, B;Palouš, J;Ehlerová, S;Wünsch, R;Morris, M R;Vermot, P
The way supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Galactic Centres (GCs) accumulate their mass is not completely determined. At large scales, it is governed by galactic encounters, mass inflows connected to spirals arms and bars, or due to expanding shells from supernova (SN) explosions in the central parts of galaxies. The investigation of the latter process requires an extensive set of gas dynamical simulations to explore the multidimensional parameter space needed to frame the phenomenon. The aims of this paper are to extend our investigation of the importance of SNe for inducing accretion on to an SMBH and carry out a comparison between the fully hydrodynamic code $\scriptsize{\mathrm{FLASH}}$ and the much less computationally intensive code $\scriptsize{\mathrm{RING}}$, which uses the thin shell approximation. We simulate 3D expanding shells in a gravitational potential similar to that of the GC with a variety of homogeneous and turbulent environments. In homogeneous media, we find convincing agreement between $\scriptsize{\mathrm{FLASH}}$ and $\scriptsize{\mathrm{RING}}$ in the shapes of shells and their equivalent radii throughout their whole evolution until they become subsonic. In highly inhomogeneous, turbulent media, there is also a good agreement of shapes and sizes of shells, and of the times of their first contact with the central 1-pc sphere, where we assume that they join the accretion flow. The comparison supports the proposition that an SN occurring at a galactocentric distance of 5 pc typically drives 1–3 M⊙ into the central 1 pc around the GC.