Monday, March 5, 2012

1203.0139 (Agnieszka Janiuk et al.)

Stabilization of radiation pressure dominated accretion disks by viscous fluctuations    [PDF]

Agnieszka Janiuk, Ranjeev Misra
The standard thin accretion disk model has been successfully used to explain the soft X-ray spectra of Galactic black hole systems and perhaps the UV emission of Active Galactic Nuclei. However, radiation pressure dominated disks are known to be viscously unstable and should produce large amplitude oscillations that are typically not observed. Instead, these sources exhibit stochastic variability which may naturally arise due to viscous fluctuations in a turbulent disk. Here we investigate whether these aperiodic viscous fluctuations can stabilize the inner radiation pressure dominated disks and hence maybe the answer to a forty year old problem in accretion disk theory.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0139

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