Non-Radiative Accretion and Thermodynamics
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It has been suggested that the laws of thermodynamics are violated by what we have called a convection-dominated accretion flow (or a 1/2-law accretion flow) -- an accretion flow characterized by a constant outflow of energy. We show that both the 1/2-law flow and the Bondi flow (also known as ADAF, advection dominated accretion flow) are thermodynamically admissible.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201519,
title = {Non-Radiative Accretion and Thermodynamics},
author = {Andrei Gruzinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201519},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages