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黑洞热吸积流中粘性和磁场的约束

Constraints on the Viscosity and Magnetic Field in Hot Accretion Flows around Black Holes

B. F. Liu, Ronald E. Taam

摘要:

研究了低光度活动星系核(LLAGN)中热吸积流的粘滞系数和磁场参数的大小。理论研究表明,一个几何薄,光学厚盘截断质量吸积率小于一个临界值的质量垂直蒸发从磁盘的日冕,截断区域所取代的平流为主的吸积流(ADAF)。这种截断的临界吸积率是粘性和磁场的函数。对文献中发表的一些LLAGN的X射线光子指数和光谱拟合的观测分别提供了临界质量吸积率和截断半径的估计。通过将观测结果与理论预测进行比较,估算了热吸积流区的粘滞系数和磁场参数。具体而言,质量吸积率推断在不同的来源约束的粘度参数,而截断半径的磁盘,从光谱拟合推断,进一步约束的磁场参数。据发现,在电晕/ADAF的粘度参数的值的范围从0.17到0.5,与值聚集约0.2-0.3。磁压力所需的相对较小的截断半径的一些LLAGN和被发现是一样高的气体压力的均分值。粘度参数的推断值与恒星质量黑洞X射线瞬态非定常吸积的观测结果一致。这种一致性提供了支持的范例,一个几何薄盘截断的质量蒸发过程中,从磁盘的日冕在低质量吸积率。

英文摘要:

The magnitude of the viscosity and magnetic field parameters in hot accretion flows is investigated in low luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs). Theoretical studies show that a geometrically thin, optically thick disk is truncated at mass accretion rates less than a critical value by mass evaporated vertically from the disk to the corona, with the truncated region replaced by an advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF). The critical accretion rate for such a truncation is a function of the viscosity and magnetic field. Observations of X-ray photon indices and spectral fits of a number of LLAGNs published in the literature provide an estimate of the critical rate of mass accretion and the truncation radius respectively. By comparing the observational results with theoretical predictions, the viscosity and magnetic field parameters in the hot accretion flow region are estimated. Specifically, the mass accretion rates inferred in different sources constrain the viscosity parameter, whereas the truncation radii of the disk, as inferred from spectral fits, further constrain the magnetic field parameter. It is found that the value of the viscosity parameter in the corona/ADAF ranges from 0.17 to 0.5, with values clustered about 0.2-0.3. Magnetic pressure is required by the relatively small truncation radii for some LLAGNs and is found to be as high as its equipartition value with the gas pressure. The inferred values of the viscosity parameter are in agreement with those obtained from the observations of non-stationary accretion in stellar mass black hole X-ray transients. This consistency provides support for the paradigm that a geometrically thin disk is truncated by means of a mass evaporation process from the disk to the corona at low mass accretion rates.

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