Thermal Equilibria of Accretion Disks (original) (raw)

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• Chen, Xingming ;
• Kato, Shoji ;
• Lasota, Jean-Pierre ;
• Regev, Oded

Abstract

We show that most of hot, optically thin accretion disk models which ignore advective cooling are not self-consistent. We have found new types of optically thin disk solutions where cooling is dominated by radial advection of heat. These new solutions are thermally and viscously stable.

Publication:

The Astrophysical Journal

Pub Date:

January 1995

DOI:

10.1086/187709

10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9409018

arXiv:

arXiv:astro-ph/9409018

Bibcode:

1995ApJ...438L..37A

Keywords:

• Accretion Disks;
• Advection;
• Astronomical Models;
• Cooling;
• Heat Transfer;
• Mathematical Models;
• Thermal Stability;
• Energy Transfer;
• Mass Transfer;
• Optical Thickness;
• Thermal Diffusion;
• Thermodynamic Equilibrium;
• Viscous Flow;
• Astrophysics;
• ACCRETION;
• ACCRETION DISKS;
• INSTABILITIES;
• Astrophysics

E-Print:

Submitted to ApJL July 1994. PS file, 8 Pages