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Thermal Equilibria of Accretion Disks

Marek A. Abramowicz, Xingming Chen, Shoji Kato, Jean-Pierre Lasota, Oded Regev

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9409018

Abstract

We show that most of hot, optically thin accretion disk models which ignore advective cooling are not self-consistent. We have found new types of optically thin disk solutions where cooling is dominated by radial advection of heat. These new solutions are thermally and viscously stable.

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