Theory of Accretion Disks - 2
Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Theory of Accretion Disks - 2 Garching, Germany March 22-26, 1993
By: edited by Wolfgang J. Duschl, Juhan Frank, Friedrich Meyer, Emmi Meyer-Hofmeister, Werner M. Tscharnuter
Contributors: Frank, Juhan; Meyer, Friedrich; Meyer-Hofmeister, Emmi; Tscharnuter, Werner M.
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 417; NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 417
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9789401043700; 9789401108584
Subjects: Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on `Theory of Accretion Disks - 2', Garching, Germany, March 22-26, 1993
Description: Accretion disks in astrophysics represent the characteristic flow by which compact bodies accrete mass from their environment. Their intrinsically high luminosity, and recent progress in observational accessibility at all wavelength bands, have led to rapidly growing awareness of their importance and made them the object of intense research on widely different scales, ranging from binary stars to young stellar objects and active galactic nuclei. This book contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on `Theory of Accretion Disks 2' for which some of the most active researchers in the different fields came together at the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics in Garching in March, 1993. Its reviews and contributions give an up-to-date account of the present status of our understanding and provide a stimulating challenge in discussions of open questions in a rapidly developing field.
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