2008/01/01 by Andrei M. Beloborodov, Magnus Axelsson · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.3002509
20 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "Cool discs, hot flows: The Varying Faces of Accreting Compact Objects", Funasdalen, Sweden, March 2008
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · arxiv created 2008/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Hyper‐accretion disks are short‐lived, powerful sources of neutrinos and magnetized jets. Such disks are plausible sources of gamma‐ray bursts. This review describes the disk structure, the neutrino conversion to electron‐positron plasma around the disk, and the post‐burst evolution.