De-Fu Bu

De-Fu Bu


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Academic Career Length

19Years (2008-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2022 in The Astrophysical Journal
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YQYan-Qing Qi
Yan-Qing Qi
Tong LiuTong Liu
Tong Liu
BHBao-Quan Huang
Bao-Quan Huang
YWYun-Feng Wei
Yun-Feng Wei
DBDe-Fu Bu
De-Fu Bu
A black hole (BH) hyperaccretion system might be born after the merger of a BH and a neutron star (NS) or a binary NS (BNS). In the case of a high mass accretion rate, the hyperaccretion disk is in a state of neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) and emits numerous anisotropic MeV neutrinos. Only a small fraction of these neutrinos annihilates in the space outside of the disk and then launches ultrarelativistic jets that break away from the merger ejecta to power gamma-ray bursts. Mergers and their remnants are generally considered sources of gravitational waves (GWs), neutrinos, and kilonovae. Anisotropic neutrino emission and anisotropic high-velocity material outflows from central BH–NDAF systems can also trigger strong GWs and luminous disk-outflow-driven (DOD) kilonovae, respectively. In this paper, the anisotropic multimessenger signals from NDAFs with outflows, including DOD kilonovae, MeV neutrinos, and GWs, are presented. According to the results, the typical AB magnitude of the DOD kilonovae is lower than that of astronomical transient AT 2017gfo at the same distance, and it decreases with increasing viewing angles and its anisotropy is not sensitive to the outflow mass distribution but mainly determined by the velocity distribution. Since neutrinos with ≳10 MeV are mainly produced in the inner region of the disk, they will be dramatically deflected to a large viewing angle by relativity effects. Moreover, the strains of GWs induced by anisotropic neutrinos increase with increasing viewing angles. The accumulation of multimessenger detection of the BNS/BH–NS mergers with different viewing angles might further verify the existence of NDAFs with outflows.

17 May 2022 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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WWWeixiao Wang
Weixiao Wang
DBDe-Fu Bu
De-Fu Bu
FYFeng Yuan
Feng Yuan
Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei. A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is usually adopted in such MHD models. In this work, we perform two-dimensional MHD simulations implementing different thermal treatments (isothermal, adiabatic, and radiative) to study their effects on winds from a thin accretion disc. We find that both the isothermal model and the adiabatic model overestimate the temperature, underestimate the power of disc winds, and cannot predict the local structure of the winds, compared to the results obtained by solving the energy equation with radiative cooling and heating. Based on the model with radiative cooling and heating, the ionization parameter, the column density, and the velocity of the disc winds have been compared to the observed ultra-fast outflows (UFOs). We find that in our simulations the UFOs can only be produced inside hundreds of Schwarzschild radius. At much larger radii, no UFOs are found. Thus, the pure MHD winds cannot interpret all the observed UFOs.

9 November 2017 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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De-Fu Bu
ZGZhao-Ming Gan
Zhao-Ming Gan
We perform two-dimensional simulations to study how the wind strength changes with accretion rate. We take into account bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation and the Comptonization. We find that when the accretion rate is low, radiative cooling is not important, and the accretion flow is hot. For the hot accretion flow, wind is very strong. The mass flux of wind can be ∼ 50 per cent of the mass inflow rate. When the accretion rate increases to a value at which radiative cooling rate is roughly equal to or slightly larger than viscous heating rate, cold clumps can form around the equatorial plane. In this case, the gas pressure gradient force is small and wind is very weak. Our results may be useful for the sub-grid model of active galactic nuclear feedback study.

17 March 2023 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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DBDe-Fu Bu
De-Fu Bu
LCLiang Chen
Liang Chen
GMGuobin Mou
Guobin Mou
EQErlin Qiao
Erlin Qiao
XYXiao-Hong Yang
Xiao-Hong Yang
Winds can be launched in tidal disruption event (TDE). It has been proposed that the winds can interact with the cloud surrounding the black hole, produce bow shocks, accelerate electrons, and produce radio emission. We restudy the wind–cloud interaction model. We employ the properties of winds found by the radiation hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington circularized accretion flow in TDEs. We can calculate the peak radio emission frequency, the luminosity at the peak frequency, and their time-evolution based on the TDEs wind–cloud interaction model. We find that the model predicted peak radio emission frequency, the luminosity at peak frequency, and their time evolution can be well consistent with those in TDEs AT2019dsg and ASASSN-14li. This indicates that in these two radio TDEs, the wind–cloud interaction mechanism may be responsible for the radio emission.

8 March 2011 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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De-Fu Bu
FYFeng Yuan
Feng Yuan
JSJames M Stone
James M Stone
In a hot, dilute, magnetized accretion flow, the electron mean-free path can be much greater than the Larmor radius, and thus thermal conduction is anisotropic and along the magnetic field lines. In this case, if the temperature decreases outward, the flow may be subject to a buoyancy instability – the magnetothermal instability (MTI). The MTI amplifies the magnetic field, and aligns the field lines with the radial direction. If the accretion flow is differentially rotating, a magnetorotational instability (MRI) may also be present. Using two-dimensional, time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic simulations, we investigate the interaction between these two instabilities. We use global simulations that span over two orders of magnitude in radius, centred on the region around the Bondi radius where the infall time of gas is longer than the growth time of both the MTI and MRI. A significant amplification of the magnetic field is produced by both instabilities, although we find that the MTI and MRI primarily amplify the radial and toroidal components of the field, respectively. Most importantly, we find that if the MTI and MRI can amplify the magnetic energy by factors of Ft and Fr, respectively, then when the MTI and MRI are both present, the magnetic energy can be amplified by a factor of Ft·Fr. Therefore, we conclude that the amplification of the magnetic energy by the MTI and MRI operates independently. We also find that the MTI contributes to the transport of angular momentum, because radial motions induced by the MTI increase the Maxwell (by amplifying the magnetic field) and Reynolds stresses. Finally, we find that thermal conduction decreases the slope of the radial temperature profile. The increased temperature near the Bondi radius decreases the mass accretion rate.

28 March 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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De-Fu Bu
MWMao-Chun Wu
Mao-Chun Wu
YYYe-Fei Yuan
Ye-Fei Yuan
Previous works have clearly shown the existence of winds from black hole hot accretion flow and investigated their detailed properties. In extremely low accretion rate systems, the collisional mean-free path of electrons is large compared with the length-scale of the system, thus thermal conduction is dynamically important. When the magnetic field is present, the thermal conduction is anisotropic and energy transport is along magnetic field lines. In this paper, we study the effects of anisotropic thermal conduction on the wind production in hot accretion flows by performing two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We find that thermal conduction has only moderate effects on the mass flux of wind. But the energy flux of wind can be increased by a factor of ∼10 due to the increase of wind velocity when thermal conduction is included. The increase of wind velocity is because of the increase of driving forces (e.g. gas pressure gradient force and centrifugal force) when thermal conduction is included. This result demonstrates that thermal conduction plays an important role in determining the properties of wind.