Properties of Accretion Shocks in Viscous Flows with Cooling Effects

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2004-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409664v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 1955-1972

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for Publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0218271804005912

Low angular momentum accretion flows can have standing and oscillating shock waves. We study the region of the parameter space in which multiple sonic points occur in viscous flows in presence of various cooling effects such as bremsstrahlung and Comptonization. We also quantify the parameter space in which shocks are steady or oscillating. We find that cooling induces effects opposite to heating by viscosity even in modifying the topology of the solutions, though one can never be exactly balanced by the other due to their dissimilar dependence on dynamic and thermodynamic parameters. We show that beyond a critical value of cooling, the flow ceases to contain a shock wave.

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