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The Accretion-Ejection Instability in X-ray Binaries

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The Accretion-Ejection Instability (AEI), which can occur in magnetized disks near equipartition, is a good candidate to explain the low-frequency QPO in black-hole binaries. Here we present analytical work concerning the behavior of QPO frequency and the emission of Alfv\'en waves from the disk to the corona.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0011247,
  title  = {The Accretion-Ejection Instability in X-ray Binaries},
  author = {P. Varniere and M. Tagger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0011247},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

2 pages, 2 color figures, to be published in `Proceedings of the Third Microquasar Workshop: Granada Workshop on galactic relativistic jet sources', Eds A. J.Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and J. M. Paredes, Astrophysics and Space Science special issue, in press