2002/03/25 by Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, BANIBRATA MUKHOPADHYAY · 7 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Accretion disc #Advection #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Intermediate polar #Magnetic field #Neutron star #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Stars #Stellar black hole #White dwarf #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0218271802002244
published in International Journal of Modern Physics D 11(08), 1305-1319 (World Scientific) · 15 Latex pages including 4 figures, Latex2e style; International Journal of Modern Physics D (in Press)
arxiv created 2002/03/25 · openalex publication_date 2002/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Here we study the accretion process around neutron stars, especially for the cases where shock does form in the accretion disk. In case of accretion flows around a black hole, close to the horizon the matter is supersonic. On the other hand for the case of neutron stars and white dwarfs, matter must be subsonic close to the inner boundary. So the nature of the inflowing matter around neutron stars and white dwarfs are strictly different from that around black holes in the inner region of the disk. Here we discuss a few phenomena and the corresponding solutions of hydrodynamic equations of matter in an accretion disk around slowly rotating neutron stars without magnetic field.