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Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources

arXiv:0910.4502 · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15925.x

Abstract

We investigate the viscous two temperature accretion discs around rotating black holes. We describe the global solution of accretion flows with a sub-Keplerian angular momentum profile, by solving the underlying conservation equations including explicit cooling processes selfconsistently. Bremsstrahlung, synchrotron and inverse Comptonization of soft photons are considered as possible cooling mechanisms, for sub-Eddington, Eddington and super-Eddington mass accretion rates around Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes with a Kerr parameter 0.998. It is found that the flow, during its infall from the Keplerian to sub-Keplerian transition region to the black hole event horizon, passes through various phases of advection -- general advective paradigm to radiatively inefficient phase and vice versa. Hence the flow governs much lower electron temperature ~10^8-10^{9.5} K, in the range of accretion rate in Eddington units 0.01 <~ \mdot <~ 100, compared to the hot protons of temperature ~ 10^{10.2} - 10^{11.8}K. Therefore, the solution may potentially explain the hard X-rays and γ-rays emitted from AGNs and X-ray binaries. We then show that a weakly viscous flow is expected to be cooling dominated, particularly at the inner region of the disc, compared to its highly viscous counterpart which is radiatively inefficient. With all the solutions in hand, we finally reproduce the observed luminosities of the under-fed AGNs and quasars (e.g. Sgr A^*) to ultra-luminous X-ray sources (e.g. SS433), at different combinations of input parameters such as mass accretion rate, ratio of specific heats. The set of solutions also predicts appropriately the luminosity observed in the highly luminous AGNs and ultra-luminous quasars (e.g. PKS 0743-67).

25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS

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