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Accretion onto Relativistic Objects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 February 2017
Abstract
The physics of spherically symmetrical accretion onto a compact object is briefly reviewed. Neither neutron stars nor stellar-mass black holes are likely to be readily detectable if they are isolated and accreting from the interstellar medium. Supermassive black holes in intergalactic space may however be detectable. The effects of accretion onto compact objects in binary systems are then discussed, with reference to the phenomena observed in variable X-ray sources.
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- Part III: Accretion of Matter and X-Ray Sources
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- Copyright © Reidel 1974