Hot-spot model for accretion disc variability as random process

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 487, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 815-830

  Pechacek T ^a   Karas, V ^a   Czerny, B ^b  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MECHANISMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; POWER SPECTRUM; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SNOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION, ACCRETION DISKS; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; AVALANCHE MECHANISM; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; FAST EVALUATION; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; GALAXIES: ACTIVE; GENERAL FRAMEWORK; GENERAL RELATIVITY; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HOT-SPOT MODEL; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LIGHT CURVES; LORENTZIANS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; PEAK SOLUTIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SPOT GENERATION; TIME-SCALES; X-RAYS: BINARIES;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 49749088730     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809720     Document Type: Article

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