Two Dimensional Poynting Flux Dominated Flow onto a Schwarzschild Black Hole

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2004-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401143v1

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 063001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.063001

We discuss the dynamics of the accretion flow onto a black hole driven by Poynting flux in a simplified model of a two-dimensional accretion disk. In this simplified model, the condition of the stationary accretion flow is found to impose a nontrivial constraint on the magnetic field configuration. The effect of the magnetic field on the accretion flow is discussed in detail using the paraboloidal and hyperboloidal type configuration for the poloidal structure suggested by Blandford in 1976. It is demonstrated explicitly that the angular velocity of the disk, $\Omega_D$, deviates from the Keplerian angular velocity. The angular velocity of the rigidly-rotating magnetic surface, $\Omega_F$, does not have to be the same as the angular velocity of the disk for the paraboloidal type configuration. But for the hyperboloidal type configuration, it is found that we can set $\Omega_F = \Omega_D$, which corresponds to an accretion disk of perfect conductor. We discuss the numerical solutions of the stream equation for stationary accretion flow in the Schwarzschild background using a paraboloidal type configuration. The dynamics of the accretion disk is found to depend strongly on the ratio of the accretion rate to the magnetic field strength.

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