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Radiatively driven electron-positron jets from two component accretion flows

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Matter accreting onto black holes has long been known to have standing or oscillating shock waves. The post-shock matter puffs up in the form of a torus, which intercepts soft photons from the outer Keplerian disc and inverse Comptonizes to produce hard photons. The post-shock region also produces jets. We study the interaction of both hard photons and soft photons, with on-axis electron-positron jets. We show that the radiation from post-shock torus accelerates the flow to relativistic velocities, while that from the Keplerian disc has marginal effect. We also show that, the velocity at infinity or terminal velocity ϑ{\vartheta}, depends on the shock location in the disc.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401181,
  title  = {Radiatively driven electron-positron jets from two component accretion flows},
  author = {Indranil Chattopadhyay and Santabrata Das and Sandip K. Chakrabarti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401181},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

24 pages, 8 figures, accepted in MNRAS