Critical accretion flow of gas onto compact stars |
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Authors: | Toru Okuda Shiro Sakashita |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Earth Science, Hokkaido University of Education, Hakodate, Japan;(2) Dept. of Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
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Abstract: | The critical accretion flow of gas onto compact stars with mass of 0.6M
is investigated by numerical integrations of the time-dependent hydrodynamic equations in the sphericallysymmetric and optically thick case. For the compact stars surrounded by such a dense cloud of gas, the radiation pressure force decelerates the infall gas significantly and free fall regime of the gas is not at all attained. This results in incident low velocities at the standing shock front close to the stellar surface, low temperatures of the gas around the compact stars, and no X-ray in white dwarfs but soft X-rays in neutron stars, respectively. Some applications of the results to the X-ray sources are discussed. |
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