Accretion model of a rotating gas sphere onto a Schwarzschild black hole

We construct a simple accretion model of a rotating pressureless gas sphere onto a Schwarzschild black hole.Far away from the hole, the flow is assumed to rotate as a rigid body. We show how to build analytic solutionsin terms of Jacobi elliptic functions. This construction represents a general rela...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: E. A. Huerta, S. Mendoza
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Redalyc-UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:57103206
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57103206
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
Accretion
relativity
hydrodynamics
accretion disks
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Sumario:We construct a simple accretion model of a rotating pressureless gas sphere onto a Schwarzschild black hole.Far away from the hole, the flow is assumed to rotate as a rigid body. We show how to build analytic solutionsin terms of Jacobi elliptic functions. This construction represents a general relativistic generalization of theNewtonian accretion model first proposed by Ulrich (1976). In exactly the same form as it occurs for theNewtonian case, the flow naturally predicts the existence of an equatorial rotating accretion disk about the hole. However, the radius of the disk increases monotonically without limit as the flow reaches the angular momentum corresponding to the maximum limit allowed by the model.