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5. Atmospheres of Accretion Discs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

James E. Pringle

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Accretion discs are a popular ingredient among theorists for modelling a number of high energy astronomical objects like quasars, active galactic nuclei (Rees 1984) and galactic X-ray sources (Levin and van der Heuvel 1983). However, the observational evidence (as opposed to the strong theoretical presumption) that accretion discs exist in these objects is weak, and in only one case has some attempt been made to argue the case for a disc on the basis of its spectral properties (Malkan 1983). Indeed the structure of accretion discs is sufficiently ill-understood that any progress in this area must rest on a strong interaction between theoretical modelling and the actual observation of accretion discs in action.

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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , 1985 , pp. 515 - 519
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Copyright © Reidel 1985

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