Tuesday, November 22, 2011

1111.4891 (Patryk Mach)

Virial theorem for radiating accretion discs    [PDF]

Patryk Mach
A continuum version of the virial theorem is derived for a radiating selfgravitating accretion disc around a compact object. The central object is point-like, but we can avoid the regularisation of its gravitational potential. This is achieved by applying a modified Pohozaev-Rellich identity to the gravitational potential of the disk only. The theorem holds for general stationary configurations, including discontinuous flows (shock waves, contact discontinuities). It is used to test numerical solutions of a model of selfgravitating radiative accretion discs.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4891

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