Thermal Equilibria of Accretion Disks
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accretioncoolingdiskopticallysolutionsthinadvectionadvective
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We show that most of hot, optically thin accretion disk models which ignore advective cooling are not self-consistent. We have found new types of optically thin disk solutions where cooling is dominated by radial advection of heat. These new solutions are thermally and viscously stable.
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