Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-03-10
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 063001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 5 figures Parentheses added in eqs. 10-13
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.063001
We test approximate approaches to solving a neutrino transport problem that presents itself in the analysis of some accretion-disk models. Approximation #1 consists of replacing the full, angular- dependent, distribution function by a two-stream simulation, where the streams are respectively outwardly and inwardly directed, with angles $\cos \theta=\pm 1/\sqrt{3}$ to the vertical. In this approximation the full energy dependence of the distribution function is retained, as are the energy and temperature dependences of the scattering rates. Approximation #2, used in recent works on the subject, replaces the distribution function by an intensity function and the scattering rates by temperature-energy-averaged quantities. We compare the approximations to the results of solving the full Boltzmann equation. Under some interesting conditions, approximation #1 passes the test; approximation #2 does not. We utilize the results of our analysis to construct a toy model of a disc at a temperature and density such that relativistic particles are more abundant than nucleons, and dominate both the opacity and pressure. The nucleons will still provide most of the energy density. In the toy model we take the rate of heat generation (which drives the radiative transfer problem) to be proportional to the nucleon density. The model allows the simultaneous solution of the neutrino transport and hydrostatic equilibrium problems in a disk in which the nucleon density decreases approximately linearly as one moves from the median plane of the disk upwards, reaching zero on the upper boundary.
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