Advection-Dominated Accretion around Black Holes
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This article reviews the physics of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and describes applications to several black hole X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. The possibility of using ADAFs to explore the event horizons of black holes is highlighted.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9803141,
title = {Advection-Dominated Accretion around Black Holes},
author = {Ramesh Narayan and Rohan Mahadevan and Eliot Quataert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9803141},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
36 pages, incl. 17 Figures, uses cupconf.sty; to appear in "The Theory of Black Hole Accretion Discs", eds. M. A. Abramowicz, G. Bjornsson, and J. E. Pringle