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1999ApJ...527L..17L - Astrophys. J., 527, L17-L20 (1999/December-2)

Evaporation of accretion disks around black holes: the Disk-Corona transition and the connection to the advection-dominated accretion flow.

LIU B.F., YUAN W., MEYER F., MEYER-HOFMEISTER E. and XIE G.Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

We apply the disk-corona evaporation model (Meyer & Meyer-Hofmeister) originally derived for dwarf novae to black hole systems. This model describes the transition of a thin cool outer disk to a hot coronal flow. The mass accretion rate determines the location of this transition. For a number of well-studied black hole binaries, we take the mass flow rates derived from a fit of the advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) model to the observed spectra (for a review, see Narayan, Mahadevan, & Quataert) and determine where the transition of accretion via a cool disk to a coronal flow/ADAF would be located for these rates. We compare this with the observed location of the inner disk edge, as estimated from the maximum velocity of the Hα emission line. We find that the transition caused by evaporation agrees with this determination in stellar disks. We also show that the ADAF and the ``thin outer disk + corona'' are compatible in terms of the physics in the transition region.

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Journal keyword(s): Accretion, Accretion Disks - Stars: Binaries: General - Black Hole Physics - Galaxies: Nuclei

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