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Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks: Geometrically Slim or Thick?
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disksaccretionadvection-dominatedgeometricallyslimthickadvectiveangle
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We revisit the vertical structure of black hole accretion disks in spherical coordinates. By comparing the advective cooling with the viscous heating, we show that advection-dominated disks are geometrically thick, i.e., with the half-opening angle > 2\pi/5, rather than slim as supposed previously in the literature.
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