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Transport of radiation & energetic particles in accretion flows*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

R. Cowsik  and
M.A. Lee
R. Cowsik
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India
M.A. Lee
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA

Abstract

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The equations describing the transport of suprathermal charged particles and electromagnetic radiation across accretion flows onto compact objects are solved analytically, including the effect of shocks in the flows. These solutions indicate (a) accretion flows with shocks accelerate particles very efficiently upto ultra-relativistic energies. (b) the emergent spectra of electromagnetic radiation from such flows reproduce the observed spectra of quasars from the infrared to the hard X-ray region.

Type
IV. Prime Movers, Models and Mechanisms
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 119: Quasars , 1986 , pp. 407 - 408
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986