Subsonic Wind Accretion
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2022-03-09 v1
Abstract
The rate of subsonic wind accretion (accretion on a point Newtonian mass moving through uniform gas) is shown to be independent of the wind velocity and equal to the spherical Bondi rate -- for the adiabatic index equal to 5/3. A (very accurate) numerical calculation of the accretion flow, confirming this result, is also presented.
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@article{arxiv.2112.11221,
title = {Subsonic Wind Accretion},
author = {Andrei Gruzinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.11221},
year = {2022}
}
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3 pages