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Main Authors: Combi, Luciano, Yang, Huan, Gutierrez, Eduardo, Noble, Scott C., Romero, Gustavo E., Campanelli, Manuela
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06900
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author Combi, Luciano
Yang, Huan
Gutierrez, Eduardo
Noble, Scott C.
Romero, Gustavo E.
Campanelli, Manuela
author_facet Combi, Luciano
Yang, Huan
Gutierrez, Eduardo
Noble, Scott C.
Romero, Gustavo E.
Campanelli, Manuela
contents We present the first dynamical model of plasma accretion onto traversable wormholes by performing General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the flow on both sides of the wormhole. We evolve the ideal MHD equations on a wormhole spacetime described by the spherically symmetric Simpson--Visser metric. The disk is initialized on one side of the wormhole and accretes onto the throat driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). We show that the inflowing plasma quickly settles in the throat and forms a hot, rotating cloud. The wormhole cloud acts as an engine in which gas coming from one side accumulates at the center, dissipates energy, and powers a mildly relativistic thermal wind toward the other side. Our novel predictions show that accreting wormholes behave very differently from black holes (BHs) in astrophysical environments. In particular, one mouth presents outflows without accretion signatures, contradicting the jet-disk symbiotic relation that holds for black holes.
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spellingShingle General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows through traversable wormholes
Combi, Luciano
Yang, Huan
Gutierrez, Eduardo
Noble, Scott C.
Romero, Gustavo E.
Campanelli, Manuela
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We present the first dynamical model of plasma accretion onto traversable wormholes by performing General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the flow on both sides of the wormhole. We evolve the ideal MHD equations on a wormhole spacetime described by the spherically symmetric Simpson--Visser metric. The disk is initialized on one side of the wormhole and accretes onto the throat driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). We show that the inflowing plasma quickly settles in the throat and forms a hot, rotating cloud. The wormhole cloud acts as an engine in which gas coming from one side accumulates at the center, dissipates energy, and powers a mildly relativistic thermal wind toward the other side. Our novel predictions show that accreting wormholes behave very differently from black holes (BHs) in astrophysical environments. In particular, one mouth presents outflows without accretion signatures, contradicting the jet-disk symbiotic relation that holds for black holes.
title General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows through traversable wormholes
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06900