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吸积盘中的Angular Momentum输运:MRI驱动的Turbulence中的标度律

Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks: Scaling Laws in MRI-driven Turbulence

Martin E. Pessah, Chi-kwan Chan, Dimitrios Psaltis

摘要:

我们提出了一个标度律,预测的数值模拟饱和MRI驱动的湍流在非分层剪切盒中获得的应力值。它涉及的湍流应力的强度的垂直磁场,声速,垂直尺寸的盒子,和数值分辨率,并准确地预测了35个数值模拟的结果进行了各种各样的物理条件。我们使用我们的结果表明,饱和应力与零净磁通量的模拟线性依赖于数值分辨率,将成为可以忽略不计,如果分辨率设置为等于自然耗散尺度在天体物理磁盘。我们得出的结论是,为了使MRI驱动的湍流角动量输运能够解释观测推断的有效α粘度的大值,磁盘必须被一个显着的垂直磁场穿过,并且湍流磁能必须接近均分与热能。这一结果对吸积盘的光谱及其稳定性具有重要意义。

英文摘要:

We present a scaling law that predicts the values of the stresses obtained in numerical simulations of saturated MRI-driven turbulence in non-stratified shearing boxes. It relates the turbulent stresses to the strength of the vertical magnetic field, the sound speed, the vertical size of the box, and the numerical resolution and predicts accurately the results of 35 numerical simulations performed for a wide variety of physical conditions. We use our result to show that the saturated stresses in simulations with zero net magnetic flux depend linearly on the numerical resolution and would become negligible if the resolution were set equal to the natural dissipation scale in astrophysical disks. We conclude that, in order for MRI-driven turbulent angular momentum transport to be able to account for the large value of the effective alpha viscosity inferred observationally, the disk must be threaded by a significant vertical magnetic field and the turbulent magnetic energy must be in near equipartition with the thermal energy. This result has important implications for the spectra of accretion disks and their stability.

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