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### Understanding Thermal Stability of Radiation-Dominated DisksandRadiative Efficiency of Global Relativistic Disks

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Omer Blaes, Shigenobu Hirose

Scott Noble, John Hawley, Kris Beckwith

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Radiation-Dominance Is the Natural State of the Interesting Portions of Bright Disks

Radiation pressure exceeds gas pressure for

That is, for the most interesting parts of all bright accretion disks around black holes

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$\int dz Q \propto p_r h$\$

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So why doesn’t the thermal instability take place ?

Pressure and stress are comparable, but does that mean pressure controls stress?

Orbital shear does work on magnetic field, magnetic field dissipates, heat becomes radiation----so magnetic energy and stress drive the pressure, not the other way around!

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Explore with Toy Model

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Without any intrinsic pressure-stress correlation: n=s=0

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Including a Pressure/Magnetic Energy Correlation --- After the Fact

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As suggested by the structure of shearing-box simulations, S and W are the truly fundamental variables wherever the inflow time is the longest timescale.

Magnetic field intensity, and secondarily, the pressure, follow, with dissipation of magnetic energy driving the pressure, as regulated by the radiative loss rate.

Origin of Traditional Efficiency Numbers:the Novikov-Thorne model

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• Energy and angular momentum conservation

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energy: prompt radiation carries off dissipation

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(Thorne 1974): “In the words of my referee, James M. Bardeen (which echo verbal warnings that I have received from Ya. B. Zel’dovich and V.F. Schwartzman), ‘It seems quite possible that magnetic stresses could cause large deviations from circular orbits in the very inner part of the accretion disk….’”

It follows that the Novikov-Thorne radiative efficiency numbers may not be the last word when magnetic stresses are important.

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Numerical Procedure

• Extend HARM (GR/MHD, total-energy, conservative) from 2-d axisymmetric to 3-d

• Introduce toy-model optically thin cooling function:

(1) rapidly radiates (almost) all the heat generated

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• There is noticeable radiation beyond N-T

• Dependence on H/r, a/M to be explored