Accretion disk models

Jan, 1999
20 pages
Published in:
  • ASP Conf.Ser. 161 (1999) 295
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Models of black hole accretion disks are reviewed, with an emphasis on the theory of hard X-ray production. The following models are considered: i) standard, ii) super-critical, iii) two-temperature, and iv) disk+corona. New developments have recently been made in hydrodynamical models of accretion and in phenomenological radiative models fitting the observed X-ray spectra. Attempts to unify the two approaches are only partly successful.