Resolving Gas Dynamics in the Circumnuclear Region of a Disk Galaxy in a Cosmological Simulation

  • Levine et al.
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3478
  • Simulation with high dynamic range (1E7) down to 0.1pc, i.e. to the accretion disk of a SMBH.
  • Global instabilities make things quasi-stable locally due to turbulence.
  • An exponential density profile for the gas in a disk arises naturally due to this.

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