Highly Viscous Accretion Disks with Advection

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1997-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701140v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX, uses aasms4

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We consider the effects of advection and radial gradients of pressure and radial drift velocity on the structure of optically thick accretion disks. We concentrate our efforts on highly viscous disks, $\alpha=1.0$, with large accretion rates. Contrary to disk models neglecting advection, we find that continuous solutions extending from the outer disk regions to the inner edge exist for all accretion rates we have considered. We show that the sonic point moves outward with increasing accretion rate, and that in the innermost disk region advection acts as a heating process that may even dominate over dissipative heating. Despite the importance of advection on it's structure, the disk remains geometrically thin.

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