Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows with Outflow
XUE Li1,2,3, WANG Jian-Cheng1,2, LU Ju-Fu4
1National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011
2United Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011
3Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039
4Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005
Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows with Outflow
XUE Li1,2,3;WANG Jian-Cheng1,2;LU Ju-Fu4
1National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011
2United Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011
3Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039
4Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005
Abstract: We construct a family of self-similar solutions to describe radiatively inefficient accretion flows with outflow. We show that outflow has important effects on the dynamical structure of accretion flows. In particular, we prove that outflow can be an effective mechanism of removing the released gravitational energy of accreted gas.