RMxAA

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

ISSN: 3061-8649

Keywords

Accretion Disks:Stability

How to Cite

On the stability of accretion disks. (1986). Revista Mexicana De Astronomía Y Astrofísica, 12(1), 319-326. https://astronomia.unam.mx/journals/rmxaa/article/view/1986rmxaa..12..319f

Abstract

The stability of standard α accretion disks against perturbations in the radial direction is taken in the light of linear perturbation theory. This analysis starts from slightly different, but correct, continuity and momentum equations, besides imposing null boundary conditions on the perturbations and continuity along the flow. With such a treatment, one does obtain more stable disks, leading to some modifications in the results earlier obtained by Shakura and Sunyaev (1975).
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