Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:1405,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS on 10 November 2005
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09845.x
We discuss a special case of formation of axisymmetric shocks in the accretion flow of ideal gas onto a Schwarzschild black hole: when the total energy of the flow is negative. The result of our analysis enlarges the parameter space for which these steady shocks are exhibited in the accretion of gas rotating around relativistic stellar objects. Since keplerian disks have negative total energy, we guess that, in this energy range, the production of the shock phenomenon might be easier than in the case of positive energy. So our outcome reinforces the view that sub-keplerian flows of matter may significantly affect the physics of the high energy radiation emission from black hole candidates. We give a simple procedure to obtain analytically the position of the shocks. The comparison of the analytical results with the data of 1D and 2D axisymmetric numerical simulations confirms that the shocks form and are stable.
Gerardi G.
Molteni Diego
Teresi Vincenzo
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