| Accretion Disks in Compact Stellar Systems Contributor(s): Wheeler, J. Craig (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9810212739 ISBN-13: 9789810212735 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $167.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| Dewey: 523.8 |
| LCCN: 94168510 |
| Series: Advanced Astrophysics and Cosmology |
| Physical Information: 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Accretion disks in compact stellar systems containing white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes are the principal laboratory for understanding the role of accretion disks in a wide variety of environments from proto-stars to quasars. Recent work on disk instabilities and dynamics has given a new theoretical framework with which to study accretion disks. Modeling of time-dependent phenomena provides new insight into the causes and interpretation of photometric and spectroscopic variability and new constraints on the fundamental physical problem -- the origin of viscosity in accretion disks. This book contains expert reviews on the nature of limit cycle thermal instabilities and a variety of closely related topics from the theory of angular momentum transport to eclipse mapping of the disk structure. The result is a comprehensive contemporary survey of the structure and evolution of accretion disks in compact binary systems. |
