Slim accretion disks around black holes

ISBN-13: 9783844325270 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str.

Aleksander Sadowski

Opis

In this thesis, I study hydrodynamical models of slim accretion disks - advective, optically thick disks which generalize the standard models of radiatively efficient thin disks to all accretion rates. I start with a general introduction to the theory of accretion onto compact objects. It is followed by a derivation of the commonly-used standard models of thin disks. In the subsequent section I introduce the equations describing slim disks, explain the numerical methods I used to solve them and discuss properties of such solutions. I also give a general derivation of non-stationary equations and present the time evolution of thermally unstable accretion disks. I introduce a state-of-the-art approach coupling the radial and vertical structures of an advective accretion disk and discuss the improvements it brings to vertically-averaged solutions. I also present a numerical model of self-illuminated slim accretion disks. Finally, I present and discuss applications of slim accretion disks.

O autorze

Aleksander Sadowski is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard College Observatory. He has done his Ph.D. at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center under the supervision of Prof. Marek Abramowicz. Accretion onto black holes is his main research interest.