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Advection-dominated accretion: global transonic solutions

Astrophysics 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We obtained global transonic solutions representing optically thin advection-dominated accretion flow by solving the full set of differential equations describing such systems. We found that far from the sonic point self-similar solutions are an excellent approximation of the global flow structure if the accretion rate is well below the maximum value above which no optically thin solutions exist.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9607020,
  title  = {Advection-dominated accretion: global transonic solutions},
  author = {Xingming Chen and Marek A. Abramowicz and Jean-Pierre Lasota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9607020},
  year   = {2009}
}

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