The Rate of Turbulent Spherical Accretion：（湍流的速度球吸积）.pdfVIP

The Rate of Turbulent Spherical Accretion Andrei Gruzinov Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Princeton, NJ 08540 ABSTRACT 8 9 The rate of turbulent spherical accretion onto a compact object might be much 9 1 smaller than the Bondi rate. It is suggested that the rate of accretion onto Sgr A∗ is p much smaller than the Bondi rate. e S 1 2 Subject headings: accretion − turbulence 1 v 5 1. The rate of spherical accretion 6 2 9 The rate of adiabatic inviscid spherical accretion onto an object of mass M is given by the 0 Bondi formula 8 ˙ 2 M ∼ ρc R , (1) 9 Bondi s A / h where ρ is the density of the accreting gas, cs is the speed of sound, and RA is the accretion radius p - o RA ∼ GMc−2 . (2) s r t s We show that turbulent heat conduction reduces the rate of accretion onto a compact object a : v ˙ ˙ RS α i M ∼ MBondi , (3) X RA r a where RS ≪ RA is the radius of the compact object, and α is a model-dependent positive parameter. This formula is derived in the next section. Turb