Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted for publication in A & A, 5 pages
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20053997
Heat conduction plays an important role in the balance between heating and cooling in many astrophysical objects, e.g. cooling flows in clusters of galaxies. Here we investigate the effect of heat conduction on the interaction between a cool disk and a hot corona around black holes. Using the one-radial-zone approximation, we study the vertical structure of the disk corona and derive evaporation and coronal mass flow rates for various reduced thermal conductivities. We find lower evaporation rates and a shift in the evaporation maxima to smaller radii. This implies that the spectral state transition occurs at a lower mass flow rate and a disk truncation closer to the black hole. Reductions of thermal conductivity are thought to be magnetically caused and might vary from object to object by a different configuration of the magnetic fields.
Meyer Fernand
Meyer-Hofmeister Emmi
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