Optical light curves of the black hole binaries GRS 1124-68 and A0620-00 in outburst: The importance of irradiation

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 532, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 1069-1077

  Esin, Ann A ^a,b   Kuulkers, Erik ^c,d   Mcclintock, Jeffrey E ^e   Narayan, Ramesh ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, Accretion disks; Black hole physics; Plasmas; Radiation mechanisms: thermal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034164192     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/308615     Document Type: Article

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