Disc instabilities and "soft" X-ray transients

1996/10/10 by J. P. Lasota, Lasota, J. P.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9610068

11 pages, 2 EPS figures, Latex, uses paspconf.sty Invited review at the IAU Colloquium 163: "Accretion phenomena and Related Outflows", 15-19 July 1996, Port Douglas, Australia, Eds. D. Wickramasinghe, L. Ferrario and G. Bicknell, ASP Conf. Series

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Abstract

I review several problems which arise when one tries to apply the standard dwarf nova instability model to outbursts of soft X-ray transients.

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