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Self-gravitating warped disks around nuclear black holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Ayse Ulubay-Siddiki ,
Ortwin Gerhard  and
Magda Arnaboldi
Ayse Ulubay-Siddiki
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, D-85748 Garching, Germany email: siddiki@exgal.mpe.mpg.de, gerhard@exgal.mpe.mpg.de
Ortwin Gerhard
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, D-85748 Garching, Germany email: siddiki@exgal.mpe.mpg.de, gerhard@exgal.mpe.mpg.de
Magda Arnaboldi
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl-Schwarzchildstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany email: marnabol@eso.org
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Abstract

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Many galactic nuclei contain disks of gas and possibly stars surrounding a supermassive black hole. These disks may play a key role in the evolution of galactic centers. Here we address the problem of finding stable warped equilibrium configurations for such disks, considering the attraction by the black hole and the disk self-gravity as the only acting forces. We model these disks as a collection of concentric, circular rings.

We find the equilibria of such systems of rings, and determine how they scale with the ring parameters and the mass of the central black hole. We show that in some cases these disk equilibria may be highly warped. We then analyze the stability of these disks, using both direct time integration and linear stability analysis. This shows that the warped disks are stable for a range of disk-to-black hole mass ratios, when the rings extend over a limited range of radii.

Keywords

Galaxies: nucleidynamicsblack hole physics
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S238: Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies – Across the Range of Masses , August 2006 , pp. 467 - 468
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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