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Fluid accretion onto a spherical black hole: Relativistic description versus the Bondi model

Edward MalecJagellonian University, Institute of Physics, 30-059 Kraków, Reymonta 4, Poland
1999en
ABI

Abstract

We describe general relativistically a spherically symmetric stationary fluid accretion onto a black hole. Relativistic effects enhance mass accretion, in comparison to the Bondi model predictions, in the case when back reaction is neglected. That enhancement depends on the adiabatic index and the asymptotic gas temperature and it can magnify accretion by one order in the ultrarelativistic regime.

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