Radiation hydrodynamical self-similar funnel jets

Abstract

ABSTRACT Two-dimensional funnel flows driven by radiation pressure in the conical funnel formed by the critical accretion disc are examined using the self-similar treatment. The flow is assumed to be steady and axisymmetric, and other forces such as viscosity and magnetic fields are ignored. For various boundary conditions on the funnel wall at the disc surface, the self-similar solutions are found to be classified into three types: funnel-filled solutions, where the flow gas fills the whole region of the funnel; polar-hollow ones, where there appears a cavity around the polar axis, and unphysical ones in a sense that, e.g. the radiation energy density becomes negative. For the physically reasonable solutions, the flow gas generally concentrates to the funnel wall, and the flow density and the radiation energy density monotonically decrease from the funnel wall towards the polar axis, while the radial flux becomes negative near the polar axis. The vertical velocity increases towards the polar axis, while the vertical flux has often the maximum between the polar axis and the funnel wall. As a result, the present self-similar funnel jets are such a flow with a slow dense outer part and a fast rarefied inner part.