Behaviour of dissipative accretion flows around black holes
Abstract
We investigate the behaviour of dissipative accreting matter close to a black hole, as this provides important observational features of galactic and extragalactic black hole candidates. We find a complete set of global solutions in the presence of viscosity and synchrotron cooling. We show that advective accretion flow can have a standing shock wave and the dynamics of the shock is controlled by the dissipation parameters (both viscosity and cooling). We study the effective region of the parameter space for standing as well as oscillating shock. We find that the shock front always moves towards the black hole as the dissipation parameters are increased. However, viscosity and cooling have opposite effects in deciding the solution topologies. We obtain two critical cooling parameters that separate the nature of the accretion solution.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- April 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11501.x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0610651
- Bibcode:
- 2007MNRAS.376.1659D
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion discs;
- black hole physics;
- shock waves;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS