Radiatively driven general relativistic jets
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2018-03-14 v1
Abstract
We use moment formalism of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics to obtain equations of motion of radial jets and solve them using polytropic equation of state of the relativistic gas. We consider curved space-time around black holes and obtain jets with moderately relativistic terminal speeds. In addition, the radiation field from the accretion disc, is able to induce internal shocks in the jet close to the horizon. Under combined effect of thermal as well as radiative driving, terminal speeds up to 0.75 (units of light speed) are obtained.
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@article{arxiv.1801.09621,
title = {Radiatively driven general relativistic jets},
author = {Mukesh K. Vyas and Indranil Chattopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09621},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in a special issue of JoAA