On the impossibility of advection dominated accretion

Details On the impossibility of advection dominated accretion On the impossibility of advection dominated accretion

2003-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308171v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages submitted to MNRAS

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Using only the assumption that all interactions between particles in an accretion flow are electromagnetically mediated, it is shown that the time to establish equipartition between ions and electrons is shorter than the characteristic accretion time. Consequently, two-temperature fits to the spectra of accreting objects are unphysical, and models in which significant thermal energy is carried across the event horizon are effectively ruled out.

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