Radiative effects in supersonic wind accretion onto gravitating objects

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Oct 2005

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 441, Issue 3, October III 2005, pp.863-872

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Stars: Neutron, Shock Waves, Methods: Numerical, Radiative Transfer, Accretion, Accretion Disks

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We investigate the influence of radiative effects
on supersonic wind accretion onto gravitating objects. The accreting matter is assumed to be optically thin. The physical mechanisms taken into account include cooling due to free-free and free-bound transitions, the Compton heating via X-ray scattering on electrons and the inverse Compton cooling in the regions where the temperature of the matter becomes sufficiently large to be able to transfer part of its internal energy to photons. A wide range of determining parameters was covered, including the values applicable to the Vela X-1 binary system, but our main emphasis is on the study of the effects of radiative processes on the behavior of accretion flows. It is shown that the applicability of polytropic accretion models is very limited and the actual accretion rate can be considerably lower than that provided by the Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton formula. The detailed consideration of the realistic radiative effects proved to be of great importance in our understanding of the accretion phenomenon, since they can substantially affect it both qualitatively and quantitatively.

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