Angular momentum transport by thermal emission in black hole accretion disks

Details Angular momentum transport by thermal emission in black hole accretion disks Angular momentum transport by thermal emission in black hole accretion disks

2010-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/1011.5366v9

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

6 pages, 2 figures; to appear in AN

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We calculate the amount of angular momentum that thermal photons carry out of a viscous black hole accretion disc, due to the strong Doppler shift imparted to them by the high orbital velocity of the radiating disc material. While the emission of radiation can not drive accretion on its own, we find that it does result in a loss of specific angular momentum, thereby contributing to an otherwise viscosity-driven accretion flow. In particular, we show that the fraction of the angular momentum that is lost to thermal emission at a radius r in a standard, multi-color disc is ~ 0.4r_s/r, where r_s is the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole. We briefly highlight the key similarities between this effect and the closely related Poynting-Robertson effect.

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