What is the real accretion rate onto a black hole for low angular
  momentum accretion?
  Mass accretion rate is a key parameter in accretion disk theory. It
determines black hole accretion mode. In large scale cosmological simulations
studying galaxy formation and evolution, Bondi radius can at most be marginally
resolved. In those simulations, Bondi accretion formula is always used to
estimate black hole accretion rate. Bondi solution is too simple, which cannot
represent the real accretion process. We perform simulations of hot accretion
flow at parsec scale irradiated by a low luminosity active galactic nucleus
(AGN). We perform 77 simulations with varying density and temperature at outer
boundary (10 parsec). Our purpose is to find a formula to calculate real black
hole accretion rate based on the gas density and temperature at parsec scale.
We define Eddington accretion rate to be $\dot M_{\rm Edd}=10L_{\rm Edd}/c^2$,
with $L_{\rm Edd}$ and $c$ been Eddington luminosity and speed of light
respectively. We set black hole mass to be $10^8M_{\odot}$, $M_{\odot}$ is
solar mass. We find that black hole accretion rate can be expressed as
$\frac{\dot M_{\rm BH} }{\dot M_{\rm Edd}}=10^{-3.11} (\rho_0/10^{-22}{\rm g
cm}^{-3})^{1.36} (T_0/10^7 {\rm K})^{-1.9}$, with $\rho_0$ and $T_0$ being
density and temperature at parsec scale, respectively. We find the formula can
accurately predict the luminosity of observed low-luminosity AGNs (with black
hole mass $\sim 10^8M_{\odot}$). This formula can be used in the sub-grid
models in large scale cosmological simulations with a black hole mass of $\sim
10^8M_{\odot}$.
