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Accretion Disks with Convective Viscosity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. Smak*
Affiliation:
Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences Bartycka 18, 00–716 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

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Models of vertical structure are calculated for a range of parameters applicable to dwarf novae with two types of viscosity being included: the standard α-disk viscosity and the additional turbulent viscosity in the convective regions. The resulting surface density (∑) υs. effective temperature (Te) relations, compared to those without convective viscosity, show larger separation between the two critical points of the ∑ – Te relation, ∑min and ∑max. This could suggest that with such a modification the dwarf nova outbursts could be reproduced with a single value of α. (Note that in the standard α approach two different α’s are needed on the hot and cool branch of the ∑ – Te relation, with αcoolαhot/4). It turns out, however, that this is not the case. This is due to the fact that additional convective viscosity makes also ∑max smaller than in the pure α case.

Type
Part 4. Properties of Accretion Disks
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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