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The Impetus Project: Using abacus for the High Performance Computation of Radiative Tables for Accretion onto a Galaxy Black Hole

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We present the intensive calculations of digital tables for the radiative terms that appear in the energy and momentum equations used to simulate the accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies. Cooling and heating rates are presented, calculated with a Spectral Energy Distribution constructed from: an accretion disk plus an X-ray power-law and an accretion disk plus a Corona. The electronic structures of atoms, the photoionization cross-sections, and the recombination rates are treated in great detail. With the recent discovery of outflows originating at sub-parsec scales, these tables may provide a useful tool for modeling gas accretion processes onto a SMBH.

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Acknowledgments

impetus is a collaboration project between the abacus-Centro de Matemáticas Aplicadas y Cómputo de Alto Rendimiento of Cinvestav-IPN, the Centro de Física of the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), and the Área de Física de Procesos Irreversibles of the Departamento de Ciencias Básicas of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Azcapotzalco (UAM-A) aimed at the SPH modeling of astrophysical flows. The project is supported by abacus under grant EDOMEX-2011-C01-165873, by IVIC under the project 2013000259, and by UAM-A through internal funds. JMRV thanks the hospitality, support, and computing facilities of abacus, where this work was done.

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  1. Centro de Física, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apartado Postal 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela

    José M. Ramírez-Velasquez & Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti

  2. ABACUS-Laboratorio de Matemática Aplicada y Cómputo de Alto Rendimiento, Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados CINVESTAV-IPN, Carretera México-Toluca Km 38.5, La Marquesa, 52740, Ocoyoacac, Estado de México, Mexico

    José M. Ramírez-Velasquez & Jaime Klapp

  3. Departamento de Física, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ), Carretera México-Toluca Km. 36.5, La Marquesa, 52750, Ocoyoacac, Estado de México, Mexico

    Jaime Klapp

  4. Instituto de Ciencias Básicas e Ingenierías, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), Ciudad Universitaria, Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo km. 4.5 S/N, Colonia Carboneras, 42184, Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, Mexico

    Ruslan Gabbasov

  5. Área de Física de Procesos Irreversibles, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco (UAM-A), Av. San Pablo 180, 02200, Mexico City, Mexico

    Fidel Cruz & Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti

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Ramírez-Velasquez, J.M., Klapp, J., Gabbasov, R., Cruz, F., Sigalotti, L.D.G. (2017). The Impetus Project: Using abacus for the High Performance Computation of Radiative Tables for Accretion onto a Galaxy Black Hole. In: Barrios Hernández, C., Gitler, I., Klapp, J. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 697. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57972-6_28

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