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    • Multiple shocks in the rotating winds from self-gravitating discs

      Sandip K. Chakrabarti

      Volume 10 Issue 3 September 1989 pp 261-277

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    • Keywords

       

      winds; jets; bipolar outflows; black holes; self-gravity

    • Abstract

       

      We present the analytic theory of dissipative and non-dissi-pative shocks in the rotating outflows in both the pseudo-Newtonian and the Schwarzschild geometry. We include the effects of the self gravity of the surrounding massive disc and show that the flow may have as many as five critical points when the angular momentum and the disc mass are sufficiently high. This leads to the possibility of the multipleannular shocks within the flow. We derive the expressions correlating the pre-shock and the post-shock quantities for all the three principal types of discontinuities. From these relations it is shown that for given initial flow parameters such as the angular momentum and the energy there could be as many as eighteen formal shock locations out of which at most two are chosen in reality. Detailed classification of the parameter space in terms of the initial flow parameters will be discussed elsewhere

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Sandip K. Chakrabarti1

      1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay - 400005

    • Dates

       
      Published
      September 1989
      Manuscript received
      11 January 1989
      Accepted
      25 May 1989

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