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Accretion disks in compact stellar systems

By J. Craig Wheeler

Book information

Publisher
WS
Year
1994
ISBN
9789810212735, 9810212739
LCC
QB466.A25 A23 1993
Open Library ID
OL1181007M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (5561446 bytes)
Series
Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Pages
427\427
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2010-07-29 05:14:56

Description

Accretion disks in compact stellar systems containing white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes are the principal laboratory for understanding the role of accretion disks in a wide variety of environments from proto-stars to quasars. Recent work on disk instabilities and dynamics has given a new theoreticcal framework with which to study accretion disks. Modelling of time-dependent phenomena provides new insight into the causes and interpretation of photometric and spectroscopic variability and new constraints on the fundamental physical problem - the origin of viscosity in accretion disks. This book contains expert reviews on the nature of limit cycle thermal instabilities and a variety of closely related topics from the theory of angular momentum transport to eclipse mapping of the disk structure. The result is a comprehensive contemporary survey of the structure and evolution of accretion disks in compact binary systems.

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