Leaving the innermost stable circular orbit: the inner edge of a black-hole accretion disk at various luminosities

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Table 1:

Summary of the results (specific numbers refer to the case a^*=0).
	$r_{\rm pot}$	$r_{\rm son}$	$r_{\rm var}$	$r_{\rm str}$	$r_{\rm rad}$	$r_{\rm ref}$
$L/L_{\rm Edd} \la 0.3$	$r_{\rm in} \approx r_{\rm pot} \approx r_{\rm son} \approx r_{\rm var} \approx r_{\rm str} \approx r_{\rm rad} \approx r_{\rm ref} \approx r_{\rm ISCO}$
	for $\alpha \la 0.1$ moves	departs from
	inward with increasing	ISCO;				for
	$\dot m$ down to ${\sim}r_{\rm mb}$ ;			moves inward	moves inward	$0.3\la L/L_{\rm Edd}\la 1.0$
		for $\alpha\ll 0.1$		with increasing	with increasing	$r_{\rm ref}<r_{\rm ISCO}$
$L/L_{\rm Edd} \ga 0.3$			undefined
	for $\alpha \ga 0.1$ and	$r_{\rm son}\approx r_{\rm mb}$ ;		L down to BH	L down to BH
	sufficiently high $\dot m$ disk			horizon.	horizon.	for $L/L_{\rm Edd} \ga 1.0$
	enters the Bondi	for $\alpha \ga 0.2$				undefined
	regime - undefined	$r_{\rm son}>r_{\rm ISCO}$

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