Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

Ramesh Narayan

Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Authors: Ramesh Narayan

Abstract

Most accreting black holes emit a substantial fraction of their luminosity in hard X-rays/soft $\gamma$ -rays of up to $\sim{\rm few}\times100$ keV. The observations suggest that the radiating gas is very hot, $T>10^9$ K, and optically thin. Theoretical attempts to explain the observations are reviewed and unresolved issues are highlighted.

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black hole accretion disks accreting black hole x-ray binaries black hole superradiance

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9508031,
  title  = {Accretion Flows Around Black Holes},
  author = {Ramesh Narayan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9508031},
  year   = {2007}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures included, compressed uuencoded Postscript, Review talk at the conference on "Some Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics," Princeton, April 27-29, 1995. To appear in the Proceedings to be published by Princeton Univ. Press (editors, J. N. Bahcall & J. P. Ostriker)

Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

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