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Pavel Abolmasov
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The influence of disc radiation capture upon black hole rotational evolution is negligible for radiatively inefficient discs. For the standard thin disc model it is a slight but potentially important effect leading to the equilibrium spin parameter value of about 0.998. For optically thin discs, the fraction of disc radiation captured by the black hole is however about two times larger. In some disc radiation models, inner parts of the accretion flow are optically thin, advection-dominated flows, and the thin disc ends at some transition radius R_{tr}. The thermal energy of the disc stored in trapped radiation is released at this radius. Angular distribution of the radiation released at this radial photosphere facilitates its capture by the black hole. For accretion rates close to critical and disc truncation radius of (2..4) GM/c^2, radiation capture is most efficient in spinning the black hole down that may lead to a_{eq} ~ 0.996..0.997 or less depending on the mass accretion rate. For an accretion flow radiating some constant fraction epsilon of dissipated energy, the equilibrium Kerr parameter is shown to obey the relation 1-a_{eq} propto epsilon^{3/2} as long as 1-a_{eq} << 1. Deviations from Keplerian law near the last stable orbit dominate over the radiation capture effect if they exceed 1..2%.
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