Properties and spectroscopic implications of thermal instability in X-ray binary and agn accretion flows

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 478, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 94-106

  Hess, Cynthia J ^a   Kahn, Steven M ^b   Paerels, F B S ^b  

^a ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Galaxies: active; Instabilities; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744433597     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303783     Document Type: Article

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