Internal structure of a thin transonic disk
Abstract
The internal structure of the thin transonic disk accreting onto a nonrotating black hole inside the last stable orbit () 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 become important, these on the sonic surface being of the same order as the pressure gradient . 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)