Why low-mass black hole binaries are transient

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 488, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 89-93

  King, A R ^a   Kolb, U ^a   Szuszkiewicz, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Black hole physics; Instabilities; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944433639     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304700     Document Type: Article

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