Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2012-01-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
9 pages, 5 figures, accepted by PASJ
Scientific paper
We explore effects of the Shakura-Sunyaev alpha-viscosity on the dynamics and oscillations of slender tori. We start with a slow secular evolution of the torus. We show that the angular-momentum profile approaches the Keplerian one on the timescale longer than a dynamical one by a factor of the order of 1/\alpha. Then we focus our attention on the oscillations of the torus. We discuss effects of various angular momentum distributions. Using a perturbation theory, we have found a rather general result that the high-order acoustic modes are damped by the viscosity, while the high-order inertial modes are enhanced. We calculate a viscous growth rates for the lowest-order modes and show that already lowest-order inertial mode is unstable for less steep angular momentum profiles or very close to the central gravitating object.
Abramowicz Marek
Horak Jiri
Levin Lina
Slapak Rikard
Straub Odele
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