Model for the ''atmosphere'' of stars around a massive black hole

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977 · Sov. Astron. Lett. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5036018

Dokuchaev, V I; Ozernoi, L M

A model is developed for a spherical system of N stars of equal mass m surrounding a black hole of mass M/sub h/>>mN. The consumption rate: the flux of stars of low angular momentum into the sphere of tidal disruption by the black hole: is calculated, allowing for repopulation of the loss cone by the stars due to diffusion of their orbits with respect to angular momentum. The corresponding distribution law for stars around the black hole is derived.

• Research Organization: Lebedev Physics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• OSTI ID: 5036018
• Journal Information: Sov. Astron. Lett. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Sov. Astron. Lett. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 3:4; ISSN SALED
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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640102* -- Astrophysics & Cosmology-- Stars & Quasi-Stellar
Radio & X-Ray Sources
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
BLACK HOLES
DISTRIBUTION
EQUATIONS
GRAVITATION
KINETIC EQUATIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
STAR ACCRETION
STAR CLUSTERS
STAR EVOLUTION
STAR MODELS