Vertical dissipation profiles and the photosphere location in thin and slim accretion disks

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-13

  Sadowski A ^a   Abramowicz, M A ^a,b   Bursa, M ^c   Kluzniak W ^a,d   Rozanska A ^a   Straub, O ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Accretion; Accretion disks; Black hole physics

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ACCRETION DISKS; ACCRETION RATE; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; CONTINUUM EMISSION; CONTINUUM SPECTRA; DISSIPATION FUNCTIONS; EQUATORIAL PLANES; RADIATION PRESSURE; RAY-TRACE; RAY-TRACING; SIMPLE MODEL; THIN DISK; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; STARS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 68349095039     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911846     Document Type: Article

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