Generalized thermal instability criterion of black hole accretion disks

Details Generalized thermal instability criterion of black hole accretion disks Generalized thermal instability criterion of black hole accretion disks

1998-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803173v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, LaTex file, accepted for publication in Chinese Physics Letters

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The conventional thermal instability criterion can not be applied to the advection-dominated accretion disks around black holes where the radiative cooling is insufficient to balance the viscous heating. The surface density change associated with the temperature perturbations, which was usually neglected in deriving the conventional criterion, was recently shown to be much significant in the advection-dominated disks. Considering both advection and surface density change, I suggested a generalized thermal instability criterion. By applying it to the optically thin and optically thick advection-dominated disks, I found that the former one is thermally stable and the latter one is thermally unstable against short wavelength perturbations, which agrees well to those found recently by both analytic and quantitative stability analyses.

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