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Meridional cross sections (over one quadrant) for the supercritical thick disks described by Models A (cyan curve), B (magenta curve), and C (green curve). As rin decreases, rout increases and so does the ratio Lrad/LEdd, while the efficiency of mass to energy conversion becomes progressively smaller. Smaller values of rin also imply steeper and deeper funnels, where pressure gradients are balanced by centrifugal forces rather than by gravity and luminosities can exceed the Eddington limit. The square symbols mark the location on the surface inside which 90% of the disk luminosity Lrad is actually emitted. The inset shows the Keplerian specific angular momentum distribution for the adopted pseudo-Newtonian potential (black line) and the three angular momentum distributions corresponding to our supercritical disks (Models A, B, and C).

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