内容説明
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.
目次
- Disk instabilities in stellar accretion disks, J. Cannizzo and F. Meyer
- angular momentum transport in low mass accretion disks, E.T. Vishniac
- emission lines from accretion disks, E.L. Robinson
- eclipse mapping of accretion disks, K. Horne
- disk atmospheres, G. Shaviv
- discs and magnetospheres, A. King
- winds and boundary layers in accretion disks, J. Drew
- the stream-disk interaction, M. Livio
- non-axisymmetric structures of accretion disks in close binary systems, Y. Osaki
- X-ray observations of accretion disks, H. Inoue
- illumination models for soft X-ray transients, A. King
- black hole accretion disk instabilities, S. Mineshige.
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