Studies of accretion flows around rotating black holes - III. Shock oscillations and an estimation of the spin parameter from QPO frequencies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 396, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1038-1045

  Mondal, S ^a,b,d   Basu, P ^b   Chakrabarti, S K ^b,c  

^a Ramakrishna Mission Residential College Narendrapur   (India)

^b INDIAN CENTRE FOR SPACE PHYSICS   (India)

^c S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Hydrodynamics; Instabilities; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GRAVITATION; STARS; VISCOSITY;

ACCRETION FLOW; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE CANDIDATES; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; QUASIPERIODIC OSCILLATIONS; SHOCK OSCILLATIONS; SHOCK-WAVES; SOLUTION TOPOLOGY;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 66949178304     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14770.x     Document Type: Article

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