Acoustic geometry through perturbation of mass accretion rate - axisymmetric flow in static spacetimes

Deepika B Ananda, Sourav Bhattacharya, Tapas K Das

Published 2014-07-08, updated 2014-08-25Version 2

This is the second of our series of papers devoted to the study of the stability analysis of the stationary transonic integral solutions for accretion flow onto a static compact object, using the acoustic geometry. Precisely, we consider accretion of an axisymmetric, inviscid and irrotational fluid in a general static axisymmetric spacetime and study the perturbation of the mass accretion rate, and demonstrate the natural emergence of the general relativistic acoustic geometry. In other words, the astrophysical accretion process has a natural interpretation as an example of the acoustic analogue gravity phenomenon. We also discuss two explicit examples of the Schwarzschild and the Rindler spacetimes. For the later, in particular, we demonstrate that for smooth flow fileds there can be no sonic point.