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Hot accretion disks with pairs: Effects of magnetic field and thermal cyclocsynchrotron radiationWe show the effects of thermal cyclosynchrotron radiation and magnetic viscosity on the structure of hot, two-temperature accretion disks. Magnetic field, B, is assumed to be randomly oriented and the ratio of magnetic pressure to either gas pressure, alpha = P(sub mag)/P(sub gas), or the sum of the gas and radiation pressures, alpha = (P(sub mag)/P(sub gas) + P(sub rad)), is fixed. We find those effects do not change the qualitative properties of the disks, i.e., there are still two critical accretion rates related to production of e(sup +/-) pairs, (M dot)((sup U)(sub cr)) and (M dot)((sup L)(sub cr)), that affect the number of local and global disk solutions, as recently found by Bjoernsson and Svensson for the case with B = 0. However, a critical value of the alpha-viscosity parameter above which those critical accretion rates disappear becomes smaller than alpha(sub cr) = 1 found in the case of B = 0, for P(sub mag) = alpha(P(sub gas) + P(sub rad)). If P(sub mag) = alpha P(sub gas), on the other hand, alpha(sub cr) is still about unity. Moreover, when Comptonized cyclosynchrotron radiation dominates Comptonized bremsstrahlung, radiation from the disk obeys a power law with the energy spectral index of approximately 0.5, in a qualitative agreement with X-ray observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNS) and Galactic black hole candidates. We also extend the hot disk solutions for P(sub mag) = alpha(P(sub gas) + P(sub rad)) to the effectively optically thick region, where they merge with the standard cold disk solutions. We find that the mapping method by Bjoernsson and Svensson gives a good approximation to the disk structure in the hot region and show where it breaks in the transition region. Finally, we find a region in the disk parameter space with no solutions due to the inability of Coulomb heating to supply enough energy to electrons.
Document ID
19950036109
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Kusunose, Masaaki
(Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw, Poland)
Zdziarski, Andrzej A.
(Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw, Poland)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
February 20, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1
Volume: 422
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0004-637X
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
95A67708
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-1570
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-2052
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-3129
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-1813
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Public
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