Accretion Disks around Kerr Black Holes: Vertical Equilibrium Revisited
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- 10 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 479 (1), 179-183
- https://doi.org/10.1086/303869
Abstract
We rederive the equation for vertical hydrodynamical equilibrium of stationary thin and slim accretion disks in the Kerr spacetime. All the previous derivations have been unsatisfactory, yielding unphysical singularities. Our equation is nonsingular, more general, and simpler than those previously derived.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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