New Analytical Formula for Supercritical Accretion Flows

Abstract

We examine a new family of global analytic solutions for optically thick accretion disks, which includes the supercritical accretion regime. We found that the ratio of the advection cooling rate, $Q_{\mathrm{adv}}$, to the viscous heating rate, $Q_{\mathrm{vis}}$, i.e., $f=Q_{\mathrm{adv}}/Q_{\mathrm{vis}}$, can be represented by an analytical form dependent on the radius and the mass accretion rate. The new analytic solutions can be characterized by the photon-trapping radius, $\rtrap$, inside which the accretion time is less than the photon diffusion time in the vertical direction; the nature of the solutions changes significantly as this radius is crossed. Inside the trapping radius, $f$ approaches $f\propto r^0$, which corresponds to the advection-dominated limit ($f\sim 1$), whereas outside the trapping radius, the radial dependence of $f$ changes to $f\propto r^{-2}$, which corresponds to the radiative-cooling-dominated limit. The analytical formula for $f$ derived here smoothly connects these two regimes. The set of new analytic solutions reproduces well the global disk structure obtained by numerical integration over a wide range of mass accretion rates, including the supercritical accretion regime. In particular, the effective temperature profiles for our new solutions are in good agreement with those obtained from numerical solutions. Therefore, the new solutions will provide a useful tool not only for evaluating the observational properties of accretion flows, but also for investigating the mass evolution of black holes in the presence of supercritical accretion flows.

14 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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