Standing shocks in adiabatic black hole accretion of rotating matter

Details Standing shocks in adiabatic black hole accretion of rotating matter Standing shocks in adiabatic black hole accretion of rotating matter

Feb 1990

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 350, Feb. 10, 1990, p. 281-287.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Accretion Disks, Black Holes (Astronomy), Rotating Matter, Shock Waves, Standing Waves, Stellar Mass Accretion

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This paper discusses the solutions for stationary, axisymmetric, transonic, adiabatic flows with polytropic, rotating fluid configurations of small transverse thickness in an arbitrarily chosen potential. Special attention is paid to the formation of the standing shocks in the case of black hole accretion and winds. The possibility of three types of shocks depending upon three extreme physical conditions at the shocks is pointed out. These are Rankine-Hugoniot shocks, isentropic compression waves, and isothermal shocks. The shock conditions for these three cases are written down, and the physical situations under which they may form are discussed.

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