Angular momentum transport by thermal em
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J.L. Johnson
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We calculate the amount of angular momentum that thermal photons carry out of a viscous black hole accretion disk, due to the strong Doppler shift imparted to them by the high orbital velocity of the radiating disk material. While thermal emission can not drive accretion on its own, we