On the hydrodynamics of accretion discs

The widely used boundary condition on the tangential stress in accretion discs is discussed and found wanting on a number of counts. In particular, it is shown that the value of the viscous energy dissipation calculated from it is unphysical. An alternative boundary condition is suggested. Using this, it is found that the energy balance in the disc places certain restrictions on the rotational velocity in the disc. It seems unlikely that the latter could be of the Keplerian form.     

SCUBA observations of the sources detected in the MAMBO 1200-μm survey

We have observed 23 sources from the Max-Planck Millimetre Bolometer (MAMBO) array 1200-μm survey with SCUBA at 850 μm, detecting 19 of the sources. The sources generally have low values for the ratio of 850- to 1200-μm flux. Two possible explanations for the low values are either that the sources are at very high redshifts or that the global properties of the dust in the MAMBO sources are different from the global properties of dust in low-redshift galaxies. If the former explanation is correct, we estimate that 15 of the MAMBO sources lie at   z > 3  .