Accretion Disk Models
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Models of black hole accretion disks are reviewed, with an emphasis on the theory of hard X-ray production. The following models are considered: i) standard, ii) super-critical, iii) two-temperature, and iv) disk+corona. New developments have recently been made in hydrodynamical models of accretion and in phenomenological radiative models fitting the observed X-ray spectra. Attempts to unify the two approaches are only partly successful.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9901108,
title = {Accretion Disk Models},
author = {Andrei M. Beloborodov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9901108},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages. Invited review at the workshop ``High Energy Processes in Accreting Black Holes'', eds. J. Poutanen & R. Svensson, ASP Conf. Series, in press