On the lack of type I X-ray bursts in black hole X-ray binaries: Evidence for the event horizon?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 574, Issue 2 II, 2002, Pages

  Narayan, Ramesh ^a,b   Heyl, Jeremy S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; X rays: binaries; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043263215     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342502     Document Type: Article

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