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DIM light on Black Hole X-ray Transients

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The current model for the outburst of stellar-mass black holes X-ray binaries is the disk instability model (DIM). An overview of this model and a discussion of its theoretical and observational challenges are given.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509091,
  title  = {DIM light on Black Hole X-ray Transients},
  author = {Guillaume Dubus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509091},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 7 figures, sollicited talk for "Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation" (Torun, June 20-24, 2005), to be published in AIP Proceedings Series

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