Rapid growth of black holes accompanied with hot or warm outflows exposed to anisotropic super-Eddington radiation
Abstract
We perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows on to a black hole (BH) with a mass of 103 ≤ MBH/ M⊙ ≲ 106 in order to study rapid growth of BHs in the early Universe. For spherically symmetric flows, hyper-Eddington accretion from outside the Bondi radius can occur unimpeded by radiation feedback when MBH ≳ 104 M⊙(n∞/105 cm - 3) - 1(T∞/104 K)3/2, where the density and temperature of ambient gas are initially set to n∞ = 105 cm-3 and T∞ = 104 K. Here, we study accretion flows exposed to anisotropic radiation from a nuclear accretion disc with a luminosity higher than the Eddington value (LEdd) due to collimation towards the bipolar directions. We find that, unlike the spherically symmetric case, even less massive BHs with MBH < 104 M⊙ can be fed at high accretion rates of ≳ LEdd/c2 through the equatorial region, while ionized regions expand towards the poles producing hot outflows with T ∼ 105 K. For more massive BHs with MBH ≳ 5 × 105 M⊙, intense inflows of neutral gas through the equator totally cover the central radiating region due to the non-radial gas motions. Because of efficient recombination by hydrogen, the entire flow settles in neutral and warm gas with T ≃ 8000 K. The BH is fed at a rate of ∼5 × 104LEdd/c2 (a half of the inflow rate from the Bondi radius). Moreover, radiation momentum absorbed by neutral hydrogen produces warm outflows towards the bipolar directions at ∼ 10 per cent of the BH feeding rate and with a velocity several times higher than the escaping value.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/sty264
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.05382
- Bibcode:
- 2018MNRAS.476..673T
- Keywords:
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- black hole physics;
- quasars: supermassive black holes;
- cosmology: theory;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 10 figures