Wind-powered mass loss from a steady accretion disk
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For a Keplerian disk, let be the total loss through both faces per unit projected area and the inward accretion rate. Annular mass conservation gives . A circular orbit has specific orbital energy , so a marginally escaping wind requires additional energy per unit lost mass. Equating this sink to a fraction of the two-face viscous dissipation gives the displayed relation. If the wind carries the local specific angular momentum , conservation of angular momentum gives , with viscous torque in an accretion disk . Eliminating the torque yields .
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