Compton scattering in a converging fluid flow - III Spherical supercritical accretion

DOI10.1093/mnras/196.4.781zbMath0477.76116OpenAlexW2040231806MaRDI QIDQ3934081

Roger Blandford, D. G. Payne

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/196.4.781

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximationradiative transfertransfer equationoptically thickbulk motionnon-adiabatic flowmassive black holecompton scatteringpower law spectrumphoton heatingconverging fluidradiation dominated shocksecular fractional energy increasespherical supercritical accretionthermal and non-thermal emission

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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