Accretion disks
Subtitle: new aspects : proceedings of the EARA workshop held in Garching, Germany, 21-23 October 1996
By: Emmi Meyer-Hofmeister, Henk Spruit (eds.).
Contributors: Meyer-Hofmeister, E. 1933-; Spruit, Henk, 1948-; European Association for Research in Astronomy.
Series: Lecture notes in physics,; 487
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Disks (Astrophysics) -- Congresses.; Accretion (Astrophysics) -- Congresses.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.