Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-11-15
Astrophys.J. 444 (1995) 231
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 Pages, 5 Figures are available by request to yi@cfa.harvard.edu, Plain Tex, CfA Preprint No. 3931, To Appear in Astrophysic
Scientific paper
10.1086/175599
We consider axisymmetric viscous accretion flows where a fraction f of the viscously dissipated energy is advected with the accreting gas as stored entropy and a fraction 1-f is radiated. When f is small (i.e. very little advection), our solutions resemble standard thin disks in many respects except that they have a hot tenuous corona above. In the opposite {\it advection-dominated} limit ($f\rightarrow1$), the solutions approach nearly spherical accretion. The gas is almost at virial temperature, rotates at much below the Keplerian rate, and the flow is much more akin to Bondi accretion than to disk accretion. We compare our exact self-similar solutions with approximate solutions previously obtained using a height-integrated system of equations. We conclude that the height- integration approximation is excellent for a wide range of conditions. We find that the Bernoulli parameter is positive in all our solutions, especially close to the rotation axis. This effect is produced by viscous transport of energy from small to large radii and from the equator to the poles. In addition, all the solutions are convectively unstable and the convection is especially important near the rotation axis. For both reasons we suggest that a bipolar outflow will develop along the axis of the flows, fed by material from the the surface layers of the equatorial inflow.
Narayan Ramesh
Yi Insu
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