Accretion of a relativistic, collisionless kinetic gas into a Schwarzschild black hole

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA65FAzbMATH Open1369.83006arXiv1611.02389OpenAlexW2549679843MaRDI QIDQ5351998FDOQ5351998

Authors: Paola Rioseco, Olivier Sarbach 

Publication date: 31 August 2017

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a systematic study for the accretion of a collisionless, relativistic kinetic gas into a nonrotating black hole. To this end, we first solve the relativistic Liouville equation on a Schwarzschild background spacetime. The most general solution for the distribution function is given in terms of appropriate symplectic coordinates on the cotangent bundle, and the associated observables, including the particle current density and stress energy-momentum tensor, are determined. Next, we explore the case where the flow is steady-state and spherically symmetric. Assuming that in the asymptotic region the gas is described by an equilibrium distribution function, we determine the relevant parameters of the accretion flow as a function of the particle density and the temperature of the gas at infinity. In particular, we find that in the low temperature limit the tangential pressure at the horizon is about an order of magnitude larger than the radial one, showing explicitly that a collisionless gas, despite exerting kinetic pressure, behaves very differently than an isotropic perfect fluid, and providing a partial explanation for the known fact that the accretion rate is much lower than in the hydrodynamic case of Bondi-Michel accretion. Finally, we establish the asymptotic stability of the steady-state spherical flows by proving pointwise convergence results which show that a large class of (possibly nonstationary and nonspherical) initial conditions for the distribution function lead to solutions of the Liouville equation which relax in time to a steady-state, spherically symmetric configuration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02389

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zbMATH Keywords

Schwarzschild black holeintegrable Hamiltonian systemsrelativistic kinetic theoryblack hole accretion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics (37K65) Black holes (83C57) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02)

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