Hyper-accreting black holes
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Hyper-accretion disks are short-lived, powerful sources of neutrinos and magnetized jets. Such disks are plausible sources of gamma-ray bursts. This review describes the disk structure, the neutrino conversion to electron-positron plasma around the disk, and the post-burst evolution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.2690,
title = {Hyper-accreting black holes},
author = {Andrei M. Beloborodov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2690},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "Cool discs, hot flows: The Varying Faces of Accreting Compact Objects", Funasdalen, Sweden, March 2008