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Advection-dominated accretion: global transonic solutions

Xingming Chen, Marek A. Abramowicz, Jean-Pierre Lasota

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9607020

Abstract

We obtained global transonic solutions representing optically thin advection-dominated accretion flow by solving the full set of differential equations describing such systems. We found that far from the sonic point self-similar solutions are an excellent approximation of the global flow structure if the accretion rate is well below the maximum value above which no optically thin solutions exist.

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