Studying the properties of accretion disks and coronae in black hole X-ray binaries with Monte Carlo simulation

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 619, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 446-454

  Yao, Yangsen ^a,b,c   Zhang, S Nan ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaoling ^a,b   Feng, Yuxin ^a,b   Robinson, Craig R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544303539     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/426374     Document Type: Article

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