Advanced Series in Astrophysics & Cosmology - Vol. 9
ACCRETION DISKS IN COMPACT STELLAR SYSTEMS
edited by J Craig Wheeler (Univ. Texas)
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.
"... a useful source of information on the recent developments of accretion disks as well as a reference book. I would recommend this book to scientists who wish to enlarge their knowledge on the present state of art of the field. Of course, it should be present in any astronomical library."
| L Nobili | | Classical & Quantum Gravity |
Contents:
- Introduction to Accretion Disk Research (J Wood)
- The Limit Cycle Instability in Dwarf
Nova Accretion Disks (J K Cannizzo)
- Angular Momentum Transport in Low Mass Accretion Disks (E T Vishniac & P H Diamond)
- The Emission Lines from Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Variable Stars (E L Robinson et al.)
- Eclipse Mapping of Accretion Disks: The First Decade (K Horne)
- Atmospheres of Accretion Disks and the Emerging Spectra (G Shaviv & R Wehrse)
- Disks and Magnetospheres (A R King & J P Lasota)
- Mass Loss and the Boundary Layer (J E Drew & W Kley)
- The Interaction between the Stream and the Accretion Disk (M Livio)
- Tidal Effects on Accretion Disks in Close Binary Systems (Y Osaki et al.)
- Accretion Disks in Bright X-Ray Binaries (H Inoue)
- X-Ray Illumination Models of Soft X-Ray Transients (J M Hameury et al.)
- Black Hole Accretion Disk Instabilities (S Mineshige & M Kusunose)
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics.
| 432pp |
Pub. date: Dec 1993 |
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