Accretion Disks — New Aspects: Proceedings of the EARA Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 21–23 October 1996

Meyer-Hofmeister, Emmi; Spruit, Henk

The most luminous compact objects are powered by accretion of mass. Accretion disks are the one common and fundamental element of these sources on widely different scales, ranging from close stellar binaries, galactic black holes and X-ray pulsars to active galactic nuclei (AGN). Key new developments in theory and observations, reviewed by experts in the field, are presented in this book. The contributions to the workshop cover the puzzles presented by the X-UV spectra of AGN and their variability, the recent numerical simulations of magnetic fields in disks, the remarkable behavior of the superluminal source 1915+105 and the "bursting pulsar" 1744-28, to mention a few of the topics.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2013-11-13

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783662141427

DOI: 10.1007/BFb0105816

Dimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm

Pages: 358.0