Stability of an ionization front in Bondi accretion

Spherical Bondi accretion is used in astrophysics as an approximation to investigate many types of accretion processes. Two-phase accretion flows that transition from neutral to ionized have observational support in high-mass star formation, and have application to accretion flows around any ionizin...

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Hauptverfasser: Keto, Eric (VerfasserIn) , Kuiper, Rolf (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2021 October 21
In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2021, Jahrgang: 509, Heft: 1, Pages: 559-566
ISSN:1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stab3011
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Verfasserangaben:Eric Keto and Rolf Kuiper
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Zusammenfassung:Spherical Bondi accretion is used in astrophysics as an approximation to investigate many types of accretion processes. Two-phase accretion flows that transition from neutral to ionized have observational support in high-mass star formation, and have application to accretion flows around any ionizing source, but the hydrodynamic stability of two-phase Bondi accretion is not understood. With both semi-analytic and fully numerical methods, we find that these flows may be stable, conditionally stable, or unstable depending on the initial conditions. The transition from an R-type to a D-type ionization front plays a key role in conditionally stable and unstable flows.
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ISSN:1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stab3011