Radiatively Driven Jets around Black Holes
Abstract
The hot, puffed up, post-shock region of an advective disc is the source of high energy photons and also the jets and outflows. We study the relativistic equations of motion of jets as these high energy photons interact with them. We show that the much discussed terminal velocity of jets depends on the comparative value of radiative energy density, flux and the radiative pressure. We show that electron-positron pair plasma jets achieves highly relativistic terminal speeds for higher disc luminosities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411226,
title = {Radiatively Driven Jets around Black Holes},
author = {Indranil Chattopadhyay and Sandip K. Chakrabarti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411226},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Published in New Views on Microquasars, the Fourth Microquasars Workshop, Cargese, Corsica, France, May 27 - June 1, 2002. Eds. Ph. Durouchoux, Y. Fuchs, and J. Rodriguez. Published by Centre for Space Physics; Kolkata (India), p 118. 4 pages figures 2