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