Effects of the composition on transonic properties of accretion flows around black holes

DOI10.1142/S0218271811019487zbMATH Open1263.85019arXiv1309.7900MaRDI QIDQ4914580FDOQ4914580

Authors: Indranil Chattopadhyay, Sandip K. Chakrabarti 

Publication date: 15 April 2013

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the properties of a steady, multi-species, low angular momentum accretion flow around a Schwarzschild black hole. Each species is described by a relativistic equation of state. We find that the transonic properties depend strongly on the composition of the flow. We find that an electron-positron pair plasma is the least relativistic one. This flow produces only one sonic point very close to the event horizon and does not show multiple critical points for any angular momentum or energy. When the baryons are present, the number of critical points depend on the specific energy content. Since the number of critical points decide whether the flow will have non-linearities or shock waves, our results implies that whether or not standing shocks forms will depend on the flow composition. Thus, for instance, a pure electron-positron pair plasma will never undergo a shock transition, while mixing it with some baryons (common in outflows and jets, for example) as in a completely ionized gas, will have shocks. We study in detail how the baryon loading affects the shock properties and discuss implication in astrophysical observations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7900

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zbMATH Keywords

shock wavesblack hole physicshydrodynamicsaccretion disksaccretion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Catastrophe theory (58K35)

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