The Dynamics of a Viscous Gas Ring around a Kerr Black Hole

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Accretion, Accretion Disks, Black Hole Physics, Hydrodynamics, Relativity

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The dynamics of a rotationally symmetric viscous gas ring around a Kerr black hole is calculated in the thin-disk approximation. An evolution equation for the surface density Σ(t,r) is derived, which is the relativistic extension of a classical equation obtained by R. Lüst. A singular point appears at the radius of the last stable circular orbit r=rc. The nature of this point is investigated, and it turns out that the solution is always bounded at rc, and no boundary condition can be obtained at this radius. A unique solution of an initial value problem requires a matching condition at rc which follows from the flow structure between rc and the horizon. In the model presented here, the density in this domain is zero, and the resulting boundary condition leads to a vanishing shear stress at r=rc, which is the condition used in the standard stationary thin-disk model of Novikov & Thorne. Numerical solutions of the evolution equation are presented for two different angular momenta of the black hole. The time evolution of the resulting accretion rate depends strongly on this angular momentum.

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