ON THE FASTNESS PARAMETER AND THE INNER DISC RADIUS

Authors
LI JK WICKRAMASINGHE DT
Citation
Jk. Li et Dt. Wickramasinghe, ON THE FASTNESS PARAMETER AND THE INNER DISC RADIUS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 286(2), 1997, pp. 25-28
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00358711
Volume
286
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
25 - 28
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8711(1997)286:2<25:OTFPAT>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Recently we proposed that gas funnelled by magnetic field lines from a n accretion disc on to a magnetized compact star does not exert a sign ificant material torque on the star. We show that a consequence of thi s result is that in rotational equilibrium the true inner disc radius is significantly smaller than the corotation radius (<(omega)over bar> (in)/<(omega)over bar>(co) similar or equal to 0.10-0.74).