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We investigate the thermal stability of the outer layers of accretion discs in which the local viscous energy dissipation rate scales with the pressure as for standard Shakura-Sunyaev discs. By solving for the accretion disc vertical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martijn de Kool , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe

We investigate the transition of a radiatively inefficient phase of a viscous two temperature accreting flow to a cooling dominated phase and vice versa around black holes. Based on a global sub-Keplerian accretion disc model in steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Monika Sinha , S. R. Rajesh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The recurrent outbursts that characterise low-mass binary systems reflect thermal state changes in their associated accretion discs. The observed outbursts are connected to the strong variation in disc opacity as hydrogen ionises near 5000…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Henrik N. Latter , John C. B. Papaloizou

The local stability of accretion disks with advection is studied together with the considerations of radial viscous force and thermal diffusion. For a geometrically thin, radiative cooling dominated disk, the thermal diffusion has nearly no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xue-Bing Wu , Qi-Bin Li

We present the results of non linear, hydrodynamic simulations, in three dimensions, of the tidal perturbation of accretion discs in binary systems where the orbit is circular and not necessarily coplanar with the disc mid-plane. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. D. Larwood , R. P. Nelson , J. C. B. Papaloizou , C. Terquem

We are carrying out a programme of non-linear time-dependent numerical calculations to study the evolution of the thermal instability driven by radiation pressure in transonic accretion discs around black holes. In our previous studies we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ewa Szuszkiewicz , John C. Miller

The existing disk instability model for dwarf nova eruptions is reviewed, in the light of recent progress in the understanding of angular momentum transport in accretion disks. It is proposed that the standard lower branch in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Livio

We examine heating and cooling in protostellar disks using 3-D radiation-MHD calculations of a patch of the Solar nebula at 1 AU, employing the shearing-box and flux-limited radiation diffusion approximations. The disk atmosphere is ionized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Hirose , N. J. Turner

The vertical structure of stationary thin accretion discs is calculated from the energy balance equation with heat generation due to microscopic ion viscosity {\eta} and electron heat conductivity {\kappa}, both depending on temperature. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 K. L. Malanchev , K. A. Postnov , N. I. Shakura

We explore the thermodynamic and global structural properties of a local patch of an accretion disk whose parameters were chosen so that radiation pressure and gas pressure would be comparable in magnitude. Heating, radiative transport, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Julian H. Krolik , Shigenobu Hirose , Omer Blaes

In standard accretion discs, outward angular momentum transfer by viscous forces is compensated by the inward motion of the accreting matter. However, the vertical structure of real accretion discs leads to meridional circulation with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Pavel Abolmasov

We study the torque acting on a planet embedded in an optically thick accretion disc, using global two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. The temperature of an optically thick accretion disc is determined by the energy balance between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Yamada , S. Inaba

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamical behaviour of hot accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction on hot accretion flow is confirmed by observations of the hot gas that surrounds Sgr A$^*$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei

The observations and simulations have revealed that large-scale magnetic field and outflows can exist in the inner regions of an advection-dominated accretion disc where the resistive diffusion may also be important. In the present paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 S. M. Ghoreyshi

Recurring outbursts associated with matter flowing onto compact stellar remnants (black-holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs) in close binary systems, provide strong test beds for constraining the poorly understood accretion process. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 B. E. Tetarenko , J. -P. Lasota , C. O. Heinke , G. Dubus , G. R. Sivakoff

(Abridged) We analyse the stability and evolution of power-law accretion disc models. These have midplane densities that follow radial power-laws, and have either temperature or entropy distributions that are power-law functions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Richard P. Nelson , Oliver Gressel , Orkan M. Umurhan

In this note we study the accretion disc that arises in hypercritical accretion of $\dot M\sim 10^8 M_{\rm Edd}$ onto a neutron star while it is in common envelope evolution with a massive companion. In order to raise the temperature high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. E. Brown , C. -H. Lee , H. A. Bethe

We investigate the model of the disc/corona accretion flow around the black hole. The model, parameterized by the total (i.e. disk plus corona) accretion rate, $\dot m$, mass of the black hole, $M$ and the viscosity parameter, $\alpha$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Różańska , B. Czerny

Turbulence is crucial for protoplanetary disk dynamics, and Vertical Shear Instability (VSI) is a promising mechanism in outer disk regions to generate turbulence. We use Athena++ radiation module to study VSI in full and transition disks,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang

Protoplanetary "transition" disks have large, mass-depleted central cavities, yet also deliver gas onto their host stars at rates comparable to disks without holes. The paradox of simultaneous transparency and accretion can be explained if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Katherine A. Rosenfeld , Eugene Chiang , Sean M. Andrews