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Transport in Disks and Stars
Steven Balbus Ecole Normale Supérieure
Newton Institute 22.7.10
Ang. Mom. flux = 2! R " vrot vD!
“viscous” ang. mom flux!
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Accretion disks have acquired the status of an icon in modern astrophysics.
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• Accretion involves loss of angular momentum from fluid elements. How?
• Ordinary viscosity is much too inefficient.
• Turbulence must be present.
This permits broad correlations of the form: <δvr δvϕ >
as opposed to: λc dvϕ/dr
THE PROBLEM:
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Angular Momentum Flux:
< ρR2 vR vϕ > = ρR2 <δvR δvϕ > +ρR3 Ω vDRIFT
This angular momentum flux must be constant in a steady disk, so:
vDRIFT = - <δvR δvϕ> / RΩ
A fluctuation dissipation relation.
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Energy Flux:
< 0.5 ρR vR vϕ 2 > =
ρR vϕ<δvR δvϕ > +0.5 ρR vϕ 2 vDRIFT
= -0.5 ρR vϕ 2 vDRIFT , plus
the potential energy drift, -ρR vϕ 2 vDRIFT,
gives
-1.5 ρR vϕ 2 vDRIFT.
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Energy must be dissipated by this transport:
Energy Flux = -3/2 ρR vϕ 2 vDRIFT
Accretion rate 2 πρR vDRIFT is constant, so the Energy Flux is NOT conserved:
The energy dissipated per unit area in the disk is 1.5 (ρH) vϕ
2 vDRIFT = (3/4π) GM Mdot/R3
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All well and good..... but δvr and δvϕ lack phase coherence in a Keplerian disk. The correlation <δvrδvϕ > is ~ zero (Ji et al. 2006).
That is why hydrodynamical shear turbulence theories of accretion disks don’t work. Lack of phase coherence is often a reason why large turb. flucs. don’t transport well.
Lies, damned lies, and turbulence phenomenology
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All of this changes when a magnetic field is added...
Lies, damned lies, and turbulence phenomenology
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angular momentum
Schematic MRI
To rotation center
Ω2
Ω1
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angular momentum
Schematic MRI
To rotation center
Ω2
Ω1
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If perturbations ~eikz,
(kvA)2 + dΩ2/d lnR > 0
for stability (vA2 =B2/µρ) .
MRI Stability Criterion:
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Introduces powerful correlations between (δvR & δvϕ ) as well as (vAR & v Aϕ )
vA2 =B2/µρ.
MRI:
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Flux arguments go through just as before, but change <δvR δvϕ >
to <δvR δvϕ – vAR v Aϕ >.
Upshot:
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TRϕ = < ρ(δvR δvϕ – vAR v Aϕ ) >
The Stress tensor:
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dE/dt = - TRϕ dΩ/d ln R
This is the rate at which energy is exchanged with differential rotation. For local turb., it is also the rate of dissipation. For waves, the energy need not be dissipated.
Energy Extraction:
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Log-normal fit to Cygnus X-1 (low/hard state) Uttley, McHardy & Vaughan (2005)
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Log-normal fit Gaussian fit
Non-Gaussianity in numerical simulations.
(From Reynolds et al. 2008)
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• The MRI exhibits linear local exponential growth that is abruptly terminated when fluid elements are mixed.
• Lifetime of linear growth is a random gaussian (symmetric bell-shaped) variable, t.
• Local amplitudes of fields grow like exp(at), then themalized and radiated; responsible for luminosity.
• If t is a gaussian random variable, then exp(at) is a lognormal random variable.
Why is MRI lognormal?
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Global Simulations of the MRI, Hawley 2000
Meridional Plane Equatorial Plane
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The Kolmogorov picture of hydrodynamical turbulence (large scales insensitive to small scale dissipation) …
MHD Turbulence ≠ Hydro Turbulence
Re=1011 Re=104
…appears not to hold for MHD turbulence.
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1. Alpha models: T = αP 2. What determines T? (Pm, Rm) 3. Is the turbulence local? 4. How does MHD turb. relate to astrophysical phenomenology? (Dead zones, disk states, QPOs)
Disk turbulence folklore/issues:
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STARS
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STELLAR CONVECTIVE ZONES:
Convective stars spontaneously develop differential rotation.
The <δv δT> fluctuations are designed by nature to transport heat, not angular momentum. Heat goes out, while angular momentum tends to go in ....
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To rotation center
Ω2
Ω1
L1 < L2, Ω1 = Ω2
L2
L1
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To rotation center
L 2, Ω2
L1, Ω1
With L preserved, L1 < L2, and when elements mix, Ω1 < Ω2 . Dissipation then requires inward transport.
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GONG DATA (Howe 2009) GONG data © 2009, courtesy R. Howe “ISOTACHS”
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GONG DATA (Howe 2009)
“Tachocline”
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GONG DATA (Howe 2009)
Surface Boundary Layer
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Convective transport and shear:
1. Convection mixes entropy S along the rolls. So. . .
2. In a spherical star, why is there a dS/ dr in steady-state? Answer: require some dS/dr to maintain convective turbulence. Sustained by radial, radiative driving from below. But . . .
3. With rotation, Coriolis induces steady 2D profile S = S( r, θ). How can this be? Radiative driving from below can maintain only a 1D radial profile, and convection is always mixing entropy.
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Answer must be that the excess entropy
S’=S (r, θ) - S(r)
is indeed well-mixed: it is
constant “along the convective rolls…”
Excess entropy is well-mixed along “convective rolls”
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v⋅∇[ S-S(r )] = 0.
Convective rolls live in --and maintain-- constant excess entropy surfaces.
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BUT:
Convective rolls, especially coherent, long lived structures, are sheared into---and therefore also live in---surfaces of constant Ω .
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Shearing Convective Roll
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A “Proof:
∇⋅v = 0,
v = ∑ μ(k) exp (ik⋅x -iωt)
k = k(0) – mt ∇Ω,
k⋅μ =0,
μ⋅∇Ω =0.
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SO:
If the same convective rolls live in surfaces of constant excess sntropy, and they live in surfaces of constant Ω,
these MUST then be the same surfaces.
S’ = f(Ω2)
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Angular Velocity Residual entropy Entropy
Miesch 2009, private communication
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∇. (1/r sin θ) ( vωΦ – ωvΦ) = (1/ρ2)∇ρ×∇P,
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
and if S’ = f(Ω2), an explicit solution is possible.
Because in stars, the vorticity flux is more important than the angular momentum flux. The vorticity equation is
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Fit by J. Bonart (2009)
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GONG DATA (Howe 2009)
What about the tachocline?
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θ
θ = 54.7o
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θ
P2(cos θ) = 0, θ = 54.7o The tachocline displays a dominant quadrupolar structure.
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∇. (1/r sin θ) ( vωΦ – ωvΦ) = (1/ρ2)∇ρ×∇P,
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Vortex stretching: bulk of convective zone
Vortex advection: outer layer, tachocline
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x / r0
y / r
0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 10
0.2
0.4
0.6
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 10
0.2
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x / r0
y / r
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Global Solution (Balbus & Latter 2010) GONG DATA.
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P2(cos θ) = 0, θ = 54.7o The tachocline displays a dominant quadrupolar structure.
P2 (cos θ) forcing in tachocline
Vortex Advection:
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sin2θ forcing
P2 forcing
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sin2θ forcing
P2 forcing
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Meridional flow has long been known to be present in the solar convective zone....
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∇. (1/r sin θ) ( vωΦ – ωvΦ) = (1/ρ2)∇ρ×∇P,
Less well known is the fact that it produces sin2θand P2 (cosθ) forcing, and nothing else, via vortex advecton...
Vortex advection: outer layer, tachocline
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What the precise physical interpretation of these secondary global flows is and how they contribute to the vorticity flux divergence is an active area of ongoing research.
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A (fairly) SIMPLE DYNAMICAL THEORY IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE OBSERVATIONS.
d!2
dr= T on
dR2
dr= !2g
!f !(!2)
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1.) Accretion Disks are MHD turbulent, MRI driven by differential rotation; ang. mom. out, mass in. Secondary drift velocity corresponds to mass accretion. DR to fluc. to diss. all local.
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2.) Convective stars driven by entropy gradient; vorticity flux is crucial. Rotation related to residual entropy. Advected vorticity important in outer layers, tachocline, not in bulk of CZ. Secondary flow is circulatory, probably driven by acquisition and loss of vorticity and ensuing equatorial/polar drift.