Merging white dwarf/black hole binaries and gamma-ray bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 520, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 650-660

  Fryer, Chris L ^a   Woosley, S E ^a   Herant, Marc ^b   Davies, Melvyn B ^c,d  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Gamma rays: bursts; Hydrodynamics; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033433679     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307467     Document Type: Article

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