Numerical Simulations of the Thermal Instability Collapse in Radiation Pressure Dominated Disks

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Oct 2005

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INTERACTING BINARIES: Accretion, Evolution, and Outcomes. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 797, pp. 619-622 (2005).

Computer Science

Numerical Analysis

Accretion Disks, Quasars, Numerical Analysis, Thermal Stability, Radiation Effects, Brightness, Infall, Accretion, And Accretion Disks, Quasars

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We show that accretion disks, both in the subcritical and supercritical accretion rate regime, may exhibit significant amplitude luminosity oscillations. The luminosity time behavior has been obtained by performing a set of time-dependent 2D SPH simulations of accretion disks with different values of α and accretion rate. An explanation of this luminosity behavior is proposed in terms of limit-cycle instability: the disk oscillates between a radiation pressure dominated configuration (with a high luminosity value) and a gas pressure dominated one (with a low luminosity value). The origin of this instability is the difference between the heat produced by viscosity and the energy emitted as radiation from the disk surface (the well-known thermal instability mechanism). We support this hypothesis showing that the limit-cycle behavior produces a sequence of collapsing and refilling states of the innermost disk region.

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