Initial Configuration

Initial Black Hole-Disk Models


Gaseous Disk


The initial rest-mass density distributions for each of the four models, as well as plots of the three specific angular momentum diagnostics for the A1 model, are shown below (similar behavior can be found for cases A2-A4). The vertical dashed dotted lines correspond to the event horizon (cyan), the marginally stable radius for the prograde orbit (brown), and the marginally stable radius for the retrograde orbit (magenta) around a black hole whose dimensionless spin is χ=0.95.


Fig. 1: Rest-mass density (top panel) and specific angular
momentum (bottom panel) vs. x-coordinate