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Recent Observations of Flickering in CVs and AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W. F. Welsh
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
Janet H. Wood
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
Keith Horne
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK

Abstract

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Flickering is a phenomenon associated with all known accretion powered processes. Yet despite its energetic importance and universality, our understanding of flickering remains elementary. Only recently has the flickering itself become a topic of serious investigation. This paper briefly addresses two fundamental observational questions: “Where is the flickering coming from?” and “What is the spectrum of the flickering?”.

Type
Part 7. Local and Global Instabilities and Disk Perturbations
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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