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Internal structure of a thin transonic disk

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The internal structure of the thin transonic disk accreting onto a nonrotating black hole inside the last stable orbit (r<3rgr < 3r_{\rm g}) is considered within the hydrodynamical version of the Grad-Shafranov equation. It is shown that in the vicinity of the sonic surface takes place a sharp diminishing of the disk thickness. As a result, in the vertical balance equation the dynamical forces ρ[(v)v]θ\rho[({\bf v}\nabla){\bf v}]_{\theta} become important, these on the sonic surface being of the same order as the pressure gradient θP\nabla_{\theta} P. In the supersonic region the thickness of the disk is determined by the form of ballistic trajectories rather than by the pressure gradient.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0211260,
  title  = {Internal structure of a thin transonic disk},
  author = {V. S. Beskin and A. D. Tchekhovskoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0211260},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure, uses sc3conf.sty, to appear in Proc. Third Sakharov Conference on Physics, A.Semikhatov et al. (eds.), Scientific World, Moscow (2003)