Radiatively driven mass accretion on to galactic nuclei by circumnuclear starbursts     

Masayuki Umemura  Jun Fukue  & Shin Mineshige 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,299(4):1123-1131

We examine the physical processes of radiatively driven mass accretion on to galactic nuclei, owing to intensive radiation from circumnuclear starbursts. The radiation from a starburst not only causes the inner gas disc to contract via radition flux force, but also extracts angular momentum owing to relativistic radiation drag, thereby inducing an avalanche of the surface layer of the disc. To analyse such a mechanism, the radiation–hydrodynamical equations are solved, including the effects of the radiation drag force as well as the radiation flux force. As a result, it is found that the mass accretion rate owing to the radiative avalanche is given by M ˙ ( r )= η ( L _*/ c ²)( r / R )² (Δ R / R )(1 −  e ^−τ) at radius r , where the efficiency η ranges from 0.2 up to 1, L _* and R are respectively the bolometric luminosity and the radius of the starburst ring, Δ R is the extent of the emission regions, and τ is the face-on optical depth of the disc. In an optically thick regime, the rate depends upon neither the optical depth nor the surface mass density distribution of the disc. The present radiatively driven mass accretion may provide a physical mechanism which enables mass accretion from 100-pc scales down to ∼ parsec scales, and it may eventually be linked to advection-dominated viscous accretion on to a massive black hole. The radiation–hydrodynamical and self-gravitational instabilities of the disc are briefly discussed. In particular, the radiative acceleration possibly builds up a dusty wall, which 'shades' the nucleus in edge-on views. This provides another version of the model for the formation of an obscuring torus.  相似文献   

A spectrum of the acoustic-gravity waves associated with Auroral electro-jet     

E. O. Okeke 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1977,115(3):593-606

This model concerns the analysis of Aurora initiated travelling pressure waves in an isothermal atmosphere. Electro-dynamic Lorentz Force associated with auroral electric current density during the periods of geomagnetic activity is invoked as a possible exciting source.The dispersion phenomena in auroral induced acoustic gravity modes in the earth's atmosphere are examined and various cut-off frequencies analysed.Finally, an attempt is made to obtain a far field representation of the forced oscillations by means of Green's Function technique. Therefrom, the spectral amplitudes of the ground-level oscillations are computed. Incorporating various scaling factors, it is deduced that these amplitude components are in reasonable agreement with the results of recent measurements.  相似文献   

Evidence of the Link between Broad Emission Line Regions and Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei     

Yun Xu    Xin-Wu Cao Shanghai Astronomical Observatory  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Shanghai  Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2007,7(1):63-70

1 INTRODUCTION Most bright active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit broad emission lines, with full width at half maximum (FWHM ≥ 103 km s?1) (Peterson et al. 1999). Some type 1 AGNs could have very broad emission lines (FWHM≥ 20 000 km s?1). Type 2 AGNs s…  相似文献   

Multidimensional treatment of photon emission from accretion discs around black holes     

Kazunori Kohri  Ken Ohsuga  Ramesh Narayan 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,381(3):1267-1274

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Laboratory Exploration of Solar Energetic Phenomena     

David Alexander 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,307(1-3):197-202

The solar atmosphere displays a wide variety of dynamic phenomena driven by the interaction of magnetic fields and plasma. In particular, plasma jets in the solar chromosphere and corona, coronal heating, solar flares and coronal mass ejections all point to the presence of magnetic phenomena such as reconnection, flux cancellation, the formation of magnetic islands, and plasmoids. While we can observe the signatures and gross features of such phenomena we cannot probe the essential physics driving them, given the spatial resolution of current instrumentation. Flexible and well-controlled laboratory experiments, scaled to solar parameters, open unique opportunities to reproduce the relevant unsteady phenomena under various simulated solar conditions. The ability to carefully control these parameters in the laboratory allows one to diagnose the dynamical processes which occur and to apply the knowledge gained to the understanding of similar processes on the Sun, in addition directing future solar observations and models. This talk introduces the solar phenomena and reviews the contributions made by laboratory experimentation.  相似文献   

A toy model for magnetic connection in black hole accretion disc     

Ding-Xiong Wang  Yong-Chun Ye  Yang Li  Dong-Mei Liu 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,374(2):647-656

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New flaring of an ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 1365     

R. Soria  A. Baldi  G. Risaliti  G. Fabbiano  A. King  V. La Parola  A. Zezas 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(4):1313-1324

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Resonant relaxation near a massive black hole: the dependence on eccentricity     

M. Atakan Gürkan  Clovis Hopman 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(3):1083-1088

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Shock oscillation model for quasi-periodic oscillations in stellar mass and supermassive black holes     

T. Okuda  V. Teresi  D. Molteni 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,377(4):1431-1438

We numerically examine centrifugally supported shock waves in 2D rotating accretion flows around a stellar mass  (10 M_⊙)  and a supermassive  (10⁶ M_⊙)  black holes over a wide range of input accretion rates of     . The resultant 2D shocks are unstable with time and the luminosities show quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with modulations of a factor of 2–3 and with periods of a tenth of a second to several hours, depending on the black hole masses. The shock oscillation model may explain the intermediate frequency QPOs with 1–10 Hz observed in the stellar mass black hole candidates and also suggest the existence of QPOs with the period of hours in active galactic nuclei. When the accretion rate     is low, the luminosity increases in proportion to the accretion rate. However, when     greatly exceeds the Eddington critical rate     , the luminosity is insensitive to the accretion rate and is kept constantly around  ∼3 L _E  . On the other hand, the mass-outflow rate     increases in proportion to     and it amounts to about a few per cent of the input mass-flow rate.  相似文献   

空间钟与基础物理测试     

翟造成 《天文学进展》2007,25(2):161-168

原子钟当前已经发展到很高的水平,它们在空间科学试验中发挥了重要的作用．该文介绍了世界上正在开展的高精度空间钟计划及其对科学测量的意义．对应用空间钟可能进行的某些感兴趣的基础物理测试也进行了描述。  相似文献