The Turbulent Viscosity in Accretion Discs：（吸积盘的湍流粘度）.pdfVIP

The turbulent viscosity in accretion discs ULF TORKELSSON Sterrekundig Instituut Postbus TA Utrecht The Netherlands AXEL BRANDENBURG Nordita Blegdamsvej DK Cop enhagen Denmark AKE NORDLUND TA C Blegdamsvej DK Cop enhagen Denmark and Cop enhagen Uni versity Observato ry ROBERT F STEIN Dept of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University East Lansing MI USA Received Keplerian shear ows are unstable towards a magnetic shear instability that generates tur bulence The turbulence is considered to b e a likely source for viscosity in accretion discs Re cently several groups have simulated this turbulence in order to estimate the strength of the turbulent viscosity There are however signicant quantitative discrepancies b etween their re sults Estimates of the eective ShakuraSunyaev viscosity parameter due to the magnetic eld hB B p i ie the ratio of Maxwell stress to gas pressure ranges from to SS x y We verify these dierences using the same co de for all simulations and show that the higher values of SS are the result of an applied vertical magnetic eld Without an applied eld the typical value is INTRODUCTION Velikhov and Chandrasekhar have shown that magnetized Cou ette ows can b e unstable even when the analogous nonmagnetized ows are stable according to Rayleighs criterion In particular a Keplerian ow is stable accord ing to Rayleighs criterion but can b ecome unstable if a vertical magnetic eld is applied Safronov suggested that this magnetic shearing instability is of imp ortance for the development of turbulence in the protoplanetary disc but prac tically nob o dy paid any attention at the time The p ossibility was rediscovered by Balbus Hawley and it is now widely recognized as the