Instabilities of Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows

1996/01/22 by Xingming Chen, Chen, Xingming
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9601116

an invited talk presented at the workshop: Basic Physics of Accretion Disks, Kyoto, 22 - 27 October 1995. uuencoded, compressed, PS file; also available on Web at http://fy.chalmers.se/~chen/

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Abstract

Accretion disk instabilities are briefly reviewed. Some details are given to the short-wavelength thermal instabilities and the convective instabilities. Time-dependent calculations of two-dimensional advection-dominated accretion flows are presented.

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