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Thermal solutions of the MAD numerical simulation at r = 8 rg for an XRB with MBH = 10 M⊙. In both panels, the gray line shows the hot, optically thin branch that extends up to ṁ ≈ 10−1, while the gold line shows the cold, optically thick branch that only extends down to ṁ ≈ 10−3. The black lines show reference solutions for comparison with the dash-dotted, dotted, and dashed lines, which show the solutions for a standard Shakura-Sunyaev disk, a one-temperature ADAF analytical solution, and a two-temperature JED semi-analytical solution, respectively. The uniqueness of our MAD thermal solutions is that they have two stable thermal branches within the range 10−3 ≲ ṁ ≲ 10−1.
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