Transition from radiatively inefficient to cooling dominated phase in two temperature accretion disks around black holes

• Published in: Research in astronomy and astrophysics 2009-12, Vol.9 (12), p.1331-1342
• Main Authors: Sinha, Monika, Rajesh, S. R, Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: X射线发射; 冷却效率; 冷却温度; 冷却过程; 吸积盘; 活动星系核; 稳态模型
• ISSN: 1674-4527; 2397-6209
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/9/12/005

We investigate the transition of a radiatively inefficient phase of a viscous two temperature accreting flow to a cooling dominated phase and vice versa around black holes. Based on a global sub-Keplerian accretion disk model in steady state, including explicit cooling processes self-consistently, we show that general advective accretion flow passes through various phases during its infall towards a black hole. Bremsstrahlung, syn- chrotron and inverse Comptonization of soft photons are considered as possible cooling mechanisms. Hence the flow governs a much lower electron temperature ～10^8 - 10^9.5 K compared to the hot protons of temperature ～10^10.2 - 10^11.8 K in the range of the accretion rate in Eddington units 0.01≤M≤ 100. Therefore, the solutions may potentially explain the hard X-rays and the γ-rays emitted from AGNs and X-ray binaries. We finally compare the solutions for two different regimes of viscosity and conclude that a weakly viscous flow is expected to be cooling dominated compared to its highly viscous counterpart which is radiatively inefficient. The flow is successfully able to reproduce the observed luminosities of the under-fed AGNs and quasars （e.g. Sgr A＊）, ultra-luminous X-ray sources （e.g. SS433）, as well as the highly luminous AGNs and ultra-luminous quasars （e.g. PKS 0743-67） at different combinations of the mass accretion rate and ratio of specific heats.