Oral Presentation

Two Component Accretion Flow of Super Massive Black Holes in AGN

Author(s): Ronald Taam (ASIAA)

Presenter: Ronald Taam (ASIAA)

To provide an understanding of accretion in strong gravitational
field environments, observational data enable us to develop a physical picture. Due to the short timescales characteristic of variability in stellar mass black holes in black hole X-ray binary systems, an observational template has been developed for relating the nature of accretion flow as a function of the Eddington ratio. The application to AGNs fails to produce their observed X-ray emission. Here, we examine a model in which gas is supplied to a supermassive black hole by the gravitational capture of interstellar medium or stellar wind material in the very innermost regions of a galaxy.