Self-consistent Models of Spherical Accretion onto Black Holes. II. Two-Temperature Solutions with Pairs

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May 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990apj...354...83p&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal v.354, p.83

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

20

Black Holes, Hydrodynamics, Radiation Mechanisms, Quasars

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Two-temperature spherical accretion onto a black hole is considered with the effect of thermal pair production. Leptons (electrons and positrons) are coupled with ions by Coulomb interactions. Relativistic hydrodynamic and radiation moment equations are iteratively solved. Relativistic bremsstrahlung and Comptonization are the main radiative processes, and the preheating and shock are also considered.
Self-consistent models are found in the range, mṡ ≲ 0.1 and 5 ≲ mṡ ≤ 30, where mṡ ≡ Mṡc2/LE with Mṡ being the mass accretion rate. Between 0.1 ≲ mṡ ≲ 5, no self-consistent steady state solution exist due to the Compton preheating. When mṡ ≲ 30, ions and leptons are completely coupled by Coulomb interaction, and the flow is one temperature. When mṡ ≲ 0.1, these self-consistent models have ˜2 times smaller luminosity than the corresponding (same mṡ) one-temperature model. However, when 5 ≤ mṡ ≤ 30, they have higher luminosity, up to 1.5 times. Pairs produced in these models are always less than 10-1.5 1.5 of ionized electrons.
A different higher luminosity, pair-abundant branch of solutions are also found: they have ˜10 times the luminosity of the pair-deficient solutions. For these the pair density is roughly equal to the normal electron density.

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