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Bondi/Hoyle and Shakura/Sunyaev - Max-Planck-Institut für ...

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Disk accretion: General features<br />

• Accreted matter may have angular momentum ⇒ high angular velocity uφ<br />

near the CO<br />

• Accretion disk consists of rings of nearly Keplerian orbits<br />

• lKepler ∝ √ r ⇒ inward motion only possible through transport of angular<br />

momentum (slow)<br />

• Thus matter has much time to radiate binding energy away<br />

• Much more efficient at generating luminosity than spherical accretion!<br />

• Viscosity has two functions here:<br />

⋆ Transport of angular momentum<br />

⋆ Heat generation<br />

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