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Alpha-viscosity effects in slender tori

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

We explore effects of the Shakura-Sunyaev alpha-viscosity on the dynamics and oscillations of slender tori. We start with a slow secular evolution of the torus. We show that the angular-momentum profile approaches the Keplerian one on the timescale longer than a dynamical one by a factor of the order of 1/\alpha. Then we focus our attention on the oscillations of the torus. We discuss effects of various angular momentum distributions. Using a perturbation theory, we have found a rather general result that the high-order acoustic modes are damped by the viscosity, while the high-order inertial modes are enhanced. We calculate a viscous growth rates for the lowest-order modes and show that already lowest-order inertial mode is unstable for less steep angular momentum profiles or very close to the central gravitating object.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1201.5479,
  title  = {Alpha-viscosity effects in slender tori},
  author = {Jiri Horak and Marek Abramowicz and Lina Levin and Rikard Slapak and Odele Straub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.5479},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures, accepted by PASJ

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