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Two-dimensional MHD simulations of accretion disk evaporation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Kenji E. Nakamura*
Affiliation:
Department of Sciences, Matsue National College of Technology 14-4, Nishiikuma, Matsue, Shimane, 690-8518, Japan email: nakamrkn@matsue-ct.jp
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Abstract

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We simulate the accretion disk evaporation to study the changes of accretion disk structure during the state transition from the soft state to the hard state. We performed 2 dimensional MHD simulations by including the heat conduction process. We assume the axisymmetric accretion and put a cold rotating gas torus in a hot halo in hydrostatic equilibrium initially. Weak magnetic fields are threaded vertically. Heat conduction equation and MHD equations are solved separately according to the time splitting method. We obtained the result that accretion disk is heated by the hot corona and the hot gas evaporates from the accretion disk surface. We found that magnetic fields lines bended by disk rotation restrict the energy transport vertically and make disk evaporation ineffective.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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