1/2 Law for Non-Radiative Accretion Flow
Abstract
At low densities, when radiation of an accreting gas is dynamically unimportant, quasi-spherical non-radiative accretion flow is formed around a compact object. We show that the density of the flow is n r-1/2. The gas compression is much weaker than the standard Bondi's, n r-3/2, because most of the gas does not reach the compact object. It can either circulate indefinitely long or it can be launched to infinity.
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