Title A Universal Power-law Prescription for Variability from Synthetic Images of Black Hole Accretion Flows
Authors Georgiev, Boris
Pesce, Dominic W.
Broderick, Avery E.
Wong, George N.
Dhruv, Vedant
Wielgus, Maciek
Gammie, Charles F.
Chan, Chi-kwan
Chatterjee, Koushik
Emami, Razieh
Mizuno, Yosuke
Gold, Roman
Fromm, Christian M.
Ricarte, Angelo
Yoon, Doosoo
Joshi, Abhishek, V
Prather, Ben
Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro
Johnson, Michael D.
Porth, Oliver
Olivares, Hector
Younsi, Ziri
Rezzolla, Luciano
Vos, Jesse
Qiu, Richard
Nathanail, Antonios
Narayan, Ramesh
Chael, Andrew
Anantua, Richard
Moscibrodzka, Monika
Akiyama, Kazunori
Alberdi, Antxon
Alef, Walter
Algaba, Juan Carlos
Asada, Keiichi
Azulay, Rebecca
Bach, Uwe
Baczko, Anne-Kathrin
Ball, David
Balokovic, Mislav
Barrett, John
Baubock, Michi
Benson, Bradford A.
Bintley, Dan
Blackburn, Lindy
Blundell, Raymond
Bouman, Katherine L.
Bower, Geoffrey C.
Boyce, Hope
Bremer, Michael
Brinkerink, Christiaan D.
Brissenden, Roger
Britzen, Silke
Broguiere, Dominique
Bronzwaer, Thomas
Bustamante, Sandra
Byun, Do-Young
Carlstrom, John E.
Ceccobello, Chiara
Chatterjee, Shami
Chen, Ming-Tang
Chen, Yongjun
Cheng, Xiaopeng
Cho, Ilje
Christian, Pierre
Conroy, Nicholas S.
Conway, John E.
Cordes, James M.
Crawford, Thomas M.
Crew, Geoffrey B.
Cui, Yuzhu
Davelaar, Jordy
De Laurentis, Mariafelicia
Deane, Roger
Dempsey, Jessica
Desvignes, Gregory
Dexter, Jason
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Dougal, Sean
Dzib, Sergio A.
Eatough, Ralph P.
Falcke, Heino
Farah, Joseph
Fish, Vincent L.
Fomalont, Ed
Ford, H. Alyson
Fraga-Encinas, Raquel
Freeman, William T.
Friberg, Per
Fuentes, Antonio
Galison, Peter
Garcia, Roberto
Gentaz, Olivier
Goddi, Ciriaco
Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo, I
Gomez, Jose L.
Gu, Minfeng
Gurwell, Mark
Hada, Kazuhiro
Haggard, Daryl
Haworth, Kari
Hecht, Michael H.
Hesper, Ronald
Heumann, Dirk
Ho, Luis C.
Ho, Paul
Honma, Mareki
Huang, Chih-Wei L.
Huang, Lei
Hughes, David H.
Ikeda, Shiro
Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette
Inoue, Makoto
Issaoun, Sara
James, David J.
Jannuzi, Buell T.
Janssen, Michael
Jeter, Britton
Jiang, Wu
Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra
Jorstad, Svetlana
Jung, Taehyun
Karami, Mansour
Karuppusamy, Ramesh
Kawashima, Tomohisa
Keating, Garrett K.
Kettenis, Mark
Kim, Dong-Jin
Kim, Jae-Young
Kim, Jongsoo
Kim, Junhan
Kino, Motoki
Koay, Jun Yi
Kocherlakota, Prashant
Kofuji, Yutaro
Koch, Patrick M.
Koyama, Shoko
Kramer, Carsten
Kramer, Michael
Krichbaum, Thomas P.
Kuo, Cheng-Yu
La Bella, Noemi
Lauer, Tod R.
Lee, Daeyoung
Lee, Sang-Sung
Lehner, Luis
Leung, Po Kin
Levis, Aviad
Li, Zhiyuan
Lico, Rocco
Lindahl, Greg
Lindqvist, Michael
Lisakov, Mikhail
Liu, Jun
Liu, Kuo
Liuzzo, Elisabetta
Lo, Wen-Ping
Lobanov, Andrei P.
Loinard, Laurent
Lonsdale, Colin J.
Lu, Ru-Sen
Mao, Jirong
Marchili, Nicola
Markoff, Sera
Marrone, Daniel P.
Marscher, Alan P.
Marti-Vidal, Ivan
Matsushita, Satoki
Matthews, Lynn D.
Menten, Karl M.
Michalik, Daniel
Mizuno, Izumi
Moran, James M.
Moriyama, Kotaro
Muller, Cornelia
Mus, Alejandro
Musoke, Gibwa
Myserlis, Ioannis
Nadolski, Andrew
Nagai, Hiroshi
Nagar, Neil M.
Nakamura, Masanori
Narayanan, Gopal
Natarajan, Iniyan
Fuentes, Santiago Navarro
Neilsen, Joey
Neri, Roberto
Ni, Chunchong
Noutsos, Aristeidis
Nowak, Michael A.
Oh, Junghwan
Okino, Hiroki
Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.
Oyama, Tomoaki
Palumbo, Daniel C. M.
Paraschos, Georgios Filippos
Park, Jongho
Parsons, Harriet
Patel, Nimesh
Pen, Ue-Li
Pietu, Vincent
Plambeck, Richard
PopStefanija, Aleksandar
Potzl, Felix M.
Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.
Pu, Hung-Yi
Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh
Rao, Ramprasad
Rawlings, Mark G.
Raymond, Alexander W.
Ripperda, Bart
Roelofs, Freek
Rogers, Alan
Ros, Eduardo
Romero-Canizales, Cristina
Roshanineshat, Arash
Rottmann, Helge
Roy, Alan L.
Ruiz, Ignacio
Ruszczyk, Chet
Rygl, Kazi L. J.
Sanchez, Salvador
Sanchez-Arguelles, David
Sanchez-Portal, Miguel
Sasada, Mahito
Satapathy, Kaushik
Savolainen, Tuomas
Schloerb, F. Peter
Schonfeld, Jonathan
Schuster, Karl-Friedrich
Shao, Lijing
Shen, Zhiqiang
Small, Des
Sohn, Bong Won
SooHoo, Jason
Souccar, Kamal
Sun, He
Tazaki, Fumie
Tetarenko, Alexandra J.
Tiede, Paul
Tilanus, Remo P. J.
Titus, Michael
Torne, Pablo
Traianou, Efthalia
Trent, Tyler
Trippe, Sascha
Turk, Matthew
van Bemmel, Ilse
van Langevelde, Huib Jan
van Rossum, Daniel R.
Wagner, Jan
Ward-Thompson, Derek
Wardle, John
Weintroub, Jonathan
Wex, Norbert
Wharton, Robert
Wiik, Kaj
Witzel, Gunther
Wondrak, Michael F.
Wu, Qingwen
Yamaguchi, Paul
Young, Andre
Young, Ken
Yuan, Feng
Yuan, Ye-Fei
Zensus, J. Anton
Zhang, Shuo
Zhao, Guang-Yao
Zhao, Shan-Shan
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Keywords SAGITTARIUS A-ASTERISK
MAGNETICALLY ARRESTED ACCRETION
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS
GRMHD SIMULATIONS
GALACTIC-CENTER
M87
MILLIMETER
SHADOW
SCHEME
JET
Issue Date 1-May-2022
Publisher ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Abstract We present a framework for characterizing the spatiotemporal power spectrum of the variability expected from the horizon-scale emission structure around supermassive black holes, and we apply this framework to a library of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations and associated general relativistic ray-traced images relevant for Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sgr A*. We find that the variability power spectrum is generically a red-noise process in both the temporal and spatial dimensions, with the peak in power occurring on the longest timescales and largest spatial scales. When both the time-averaged source structure and the spatially integrated light-curve variability are removed, the residual power spectrum exhibits a universal broken power-law behavior. On small spatial frequencies, the residual power spectrum rises as the square of the spatial frequency and is proportional to the variance in the centroid of emission. Beyond some peak in variability power, the residual power spectrum falls as that of the time-averaged source structure, which is similar across simulations; this behavior can be naturally explained if the variability arises from a multiplicative random field that has a steeper high-frequency power-law index than that of the time-averaged source structure. We briefly explore the ability of power spectral variability studies to constrain physical parameters relevant for the GRMHD simulations, which can be scaled to provide predictions for black holes in a range of systems in the optically thin regime. We present specific expectations for the behavior of the M87* and Sgr A* accretion flows as observed by the EHT.
URI http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/643346
ISSN 2041-8205
DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/ac65eb
Indexed SCI(E)
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