Modelling the behaviour of accretion flows in X-ray binaries : EEverything you always wanted to know about accretion but were afraid to ask

Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-66

  Done, Chris ^a   Gierliński, Marek ^a   Kubota, Aya ^b,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; LUMINANCE; NEUTRON FLUX; ORBITS; POWER SPECTRUM;

ACCRETION FLOWS; RADIO JET BEHAVIOUR; X RAY LIGHT CURVES; X RAY VARIABILITY;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 36448977287     PISSN: 09354956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-007-0006-1     Document Type: Article

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