Preheated Advection Dominated Accretion Flow

Details Preheated Advection Dominated Accretion Flow Preheated Advection Dominated Accretion Flow

2000-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001446v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

41 pages with 10 postscript figures (aastex5). Submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/319042

All high temperature accretion solutions including ADAF are physically thick, so outgoing radiation interacts with the incoming flow, sharing as much or more resemblance with classical spherical accretion flows as with disk flows. We examine this interaction for the popular ADAF case. We find that without allowance for Compton preheating, a very restricted domain of ADAF solution is permitted and with Compton preheating included a new high temperature PADAF branch appears in the solution space. In the absence of preheating, high temperature flows do not exist when the mass accretion rate mdot == Mdot c^2 / L_E >~ 10^-1.5. Below this mass accretion rate, a roughly conical region around the hole cannot sustain high temperature ions and electrons for all flows having mdot >~ 10^-4, which may lead to a funnel possibly filled with a tenuous hot outgoing wind. If the flow starts at large radii with the usual equilibrium temperature ~10^4 K, the critical mass accretion rate is much lower, mdot \~10^-3.7 above which level no self-consistent ADAF (without preheating) can exist. However, above this critical mass accretion rate, the flow can be self-consistently maintained at high temperature if Compton preheating is considered. These solutions constitute a new branch of solutions as in spherical accretion flows. High temperature PADAF flows can exist above the critical mass accretion rate in addition to the usual cold thin disk solutions. We also find solutions where the flow near the equatorial plane accretes normally while the flow near the pole is overheated by Compton preheating, possibly becoming, a polar wind, solutions which we designate WADAF.

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