Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-08-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, LaTeX with 6 eps figures, accepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Scientific paper
Hoyle-Lyttleton type accretion is investigated, by taking account of not only the effect of radiation pressure but the effect of radiation drag. We calculate the trajectories of particles for three cases: only the effect of gravity is considered (case A); the effect of radiation pressure is taken into account (case B); the effect of radiation drag as well as radiation pressure is taken into account (case C). The accretion radii for former two cases are $2GM/v_{\infty}^2$ for case A and $2GM(1-\Gamma)/v_{\infty}^2$ for case B, where M is the mass of the accreted object, $v_{\infty}$ the relative velocity, and Gamma the normalized luminosity of the accreted object. We found that the accretion radius for case C is in between those of cases A and B under the present approximation; i.e., the accretion radius decreases due to radiation pressure while it increases due to radiation drag. In addition, the accretion radius for case C becomes larger as the incident velocity becomes fast. The effect of radiation drag becomes more and more important when the velocity of the incident particle is comparable to the light speed.
Fukue Jun
Matsuda Takuya
Nio Tomomi
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