The Effects of Tilt on the Images of Black Hole Accretion Flows

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We analyze two 3D general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic accretion simulations in the context of how they would manifest in Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of supermassive black holes. The two simulations differ only in whether the initial angular momentum of the plasma is aligned with the rapid (a = 0.9) spin of the black hole. Both have low net magnetic flux. Ray tracing is employed to generate resolved images of the synchrotron emission.

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2020
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2020-04
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The Astrophysical Journal
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894
Issue
1
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14
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