Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T00:09:01.392Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Coronae Above Accretion Discs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Vincent Icke
Vincent Icke*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

A turbulent accretion disc generates acoustic noise which, on propagation upward into the tenuous upper layers, forms shock waves. These give rise to a corona above the disc, thereby providing the possibility to determine observationally the existence (or otherwise) of turbulence in the disc. Models for stationary coronae of this type are calculated on the basis of a simplified thermodynamic cycle in the shocks.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 73: Structure and Evolution of Close Binary Systems , 1976 , pp. 267 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1976 

References

Allen, C. W.: Astrophysical Quantities , Athlone Press, London 1973.Google Scholar
Bath, G. T., Evans, W. D., Papaloizou, J., and Pringle, J. E.: 1974, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 169, 447.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Icke, V.: 1976 (to be published).Google Scholar
Kuperus, M.: 1965, ‘The Transfer of Mechanical Energy in the Sun and the Heating of the Corona’, at , Reidel, Dordrecht.Google Scholar
Pottasch, S. R.: 1965, Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth. 18, 7.Google Scholar
Proudman, I.: 1952, Proc. Roy. Soc. London A214, 119.Google Scholar