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The Structure of Cooling Fronts in Accretion Disks
Authors
Cannizzo J. K.
Ethan T. Vishniac
Mineshige S.
Mineshige S.
Publication date
1 January 1997
Publisher
'University of Chicago Press'
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Abstract
Recent work has shown that the speed of the cooling front in soft X-ray transients may be an important clue in understanding the nature of accretion disk viscosity. In a previous paper (Vishniac and Wheeler 1996) we derived the scaling law for the cooling front speed. Here we derive a similarity solution for the hot inner part of disks undergoing cooling. This solution is exact in the limit of a thin disk, power law opacities, and a minimum hot state column density which is an infinitesimal fraction of the maximum cold state density. For a disk of finite thickness the largest error is in the ratio of the mass flow across the cooling front to the mass flow at small radii. Comparison to the numerical simulations of Cannizzo et al. (1995) inidcates that the errors in the other parameters do not exceed
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