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Accretion Disks In Compact Stellar Systems
eBook - Advanced Series In Astrophysics And Cosmology
ISBN/EAN: 9789814504591
Umbreit-Nr.: 8649570
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 432 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.12.1993
Auflage: 1/1993
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
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- Accretion disks in compact stellar systems containing white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes are the principal laboratory for understanding the role of accretion disks in a wide variety of environments from proto-stars to quasars. Recent work on disk instabilities and dynamics has given a new theoretical framework with which to study accretion disks. Modeling of time-dependent phenomena provides new insight into the causes and interpretation of photometric and spectroscopic variability and new constraints on the fundamental physical problem - the origin of viscosity in accretion disks. This book contains expert reviews on the nature of limit cycle thermal instabilities and a variety of closely related topics from the theory of angular momentum transport to eclipse mapping of the disk structure. The result is a comprehensive contemporary survey of the structure and evolution of accretion disks in compact binary systems.