The black hole group has a new master: Artur Vemado defended his MsC dissertation, entitled “radiative cooling and state transitions in stellar mass black holes”. The defense was very successful.
Here, Artur reported his numerical simulations of black hole accretion flows where he incorporated radiative cooling (with some approximations otherwise the problem is essentially intractable!). We observe the self-consistent emergence of a hot corona enveloping a cold thin accretion disk. Artur quantified the inner radius of the thin disk, the size of the corona, and how these properties respond to varying the mass accretion rate onto the black hole. The resulting simulated black holes are similar to observations of stellar mass black holes in binary systems.
We are looking forward to reporting these exciting results on the emergence of the corona (not the covid-19!) and truncated disk in an upcoming publication.
Many thanks to FAPESP funding through grant 2017/25710-1.
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