期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/03/031
关键词
modified gravity; astrophysical black holes; accretion
资金
- Thousand Young Talents Program
- Fudan University
If astrophysical black hole candidates are the Kerr black holes predicted by General Relativity, the value of their spin parameter must be subject to the theoretical bound vertical bar a(*)vertical bar <= 1. In this work, we consider the possibility that these objects are either non-Kerr black holes in an alternative theory of gravity or exotic compact objects in General Relativity. We study the accretion process when their accretion disk is geometrically thick with a simple version of the Polish doughnut model. The picture of the accretion process may be qualitatively different from the one around a Kerr black hole. The inner edge of the disk may not have the typical cusp on the equatorial plane any more, but there may be two cusps, respectively above and below the equatorial plane. We extend previous work on the evolution of the spin parameter and we estimate the maximum value of a(*) for the super-massive black hole candidates in galactic nuclei. Since measurements of the mean radiative efficiency of AGNs require eta > 0.15,we infer the observational bound vertical bar a(*)vertical bar less than or similar to 1.3, which seems to be quite independent of the exact nature of these objects. Such a bound is only slightly weaker than vertical bar a(*)vertical bar less than or similar to 1.2 found in previous work for thin disks.
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