Simulations of spiral structure in the accretion disc of IP Pegasi during outburst

Details Simulations of spiral structure in the accretion disc of IP Pegasi during outburst Simulations of spiral structure in the accretion disc of IP Pegasi during outburst

1998-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804308v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, MNRAS in press. Color figures at http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~armitage/IP_Peg.html

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01735.x

We consider the implications of the detection of spiral structure in the accretion disc of the binary IP Pegasi. We use numerical simulations of the development of a disc outburst to construct predicted Doppler tomograms, which are found to be in close agreement with the observations if the spiral pattern arises as a transient feature when the disc expands viscously at the start of the outburst. The good agreement of such viscous disc simulations with the data is consistent with models in which most of the angular momentum transport in the disc originates in internal stresses rather than globally excited waves or shocks. Future detailed observations of the development of transient spiral features offer the potential to measure the dependence of the disc viscosity on the local physical conditions in the disc.

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