Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-05-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages with 15 figures, to appear in ApJ Vol. 523
Scientific paper
10.1086/307725
We numerically solve the set of dynamical equations describing advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAF) around black holes, using a method similar to that of Chakrabarti (1996a). We choose the sonic radius of the flow $R_s$ and the integration constant in angular momentum equation $j$ as free parameters, and integrate the equations from the sonic point inwards to see if the solution can extend supersonically to the black hole horizon, and outwards to see if and where an acceptable outer boundary of the flow can be found. We recover the ADAF-thin disk solution constructed in Narayan, Kato, & Honma (1997, NKH97), an representative paper of the previous works on global ADAF solutions, although in that paper an apparently very different procedure was adopted. We obtain a complete picture in the form of $R_s-j$ parameter space which sums up the situation of ADAF solution at a glance. For comparison we also present the distribution of global solutions for inviscid flows in the $R_s-j$ space, which supports the view that there should be some similarities between the dynamical behavior of ADAF and that of adiabatic flows, and that there should be a continuous change from the properties of viscous flows to those of inviscid ones.
Gu Wei-Min
Lu Ju-Fu
Yuan Fang-Fang
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