Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-02-20
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 753
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures (1 colored); accepted by MNRAS, referee's suggestions incorporated; high-resolution pictures can be obtaine
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07974.x
We present three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of selfgravitating, thick accretion discs around hyperaccreting stellar-mass black holes. The black hole-torus systems are considered to be remnants of compact object mergers, in which case the disc is not fed by an external mass reservoir and the accretion is non-stationary. Our models take into account viscous dissipation, described by an alpha-law, a detailed equation of state for the disc gas, and an approximate treatment of general relativistic effects on the disc structure by using a pseudo-Newtonian potential for the black hole including its possible rotation and spin-up during accretion. Magnetic fields are ignored. The neutrino emission of the hot disc is treated by a neutrino-trapping scheme, and the neutrino-antineutrino annihilation near the disc is evaluated in a post-processing step. Our simulations show that the neutrino emission and energy deposition by neutrino-antineutrino annihilation increase sensitively with the disc mass, with the black hole spin in case of a disc in corotation, and in particular with the alpha-viscosity. We find that for sufficiently large alpha-viscosity neutrino-antineutrino annihilation can be a viable energy source for gamma-ray bursts.
Janka H.-Th.
Ruffert Max
Setiawan Sandi
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