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X-ray Fluctuations from the Slim Disk

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The responses of perturbations added into the optically thick, advection-dominated accretion disk (ADAD), what we call the slim disk (SD), are investigated through numerical simulations. Although it is proposed that the SD is thermally stable, I find that a perturbation added into the disk is not rapidly damped and moves through the disk in its free-fall time. After the perturbation moves, the global structure of the disk does not vary very much. These facts may account for the substantial variability of the X-ray luminosities of stellar super-luminal jet sources (SLJSs) and Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s).

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0005162,
  title  = {X-ray Fluctuations from the Slim Disk},
  author = {Mitsuru Takeuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0005162},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Poster contribution presented at the Joint MPE,AIP,ESO workshop on NLS1s, Bad Honnef, Dec. 1999, to appear in New Astronomy Reviews; also available at http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/conferences/nls1-workshop