Accretion-Ejection Instability and a "Magnetic Flood" scenario for GRS 1915+105
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We present an instability, occurring in the inner region of magnetized accretion disks, which seems to be a good candidate to explain the low-frequency QPO observed in many X-ray binaries. We then briefly show how, in the remarkable case of the microquasar GRS 1915+105, identifying this QPO with our instability leads to a scenario for the 30 mn cycles of this source. In this scenario the cycles are controlled by the build-up of magnetic flux in the disk.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9910365,
title = {Accretion-Ejection Instability and a "Magnetic Flood" scenario for GRS 1915+105},
author = {Michel Tagger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9910365},
year = {2009}
}
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Proceedingd of the 5th Compton Symposium, Portsmouth, Sept. 1999