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Accretion Disc Viscosity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
We review the various physical processes that could lead to viscosity in accretion discs. A local magnetic dynamo offers the most plausible mechanism and we discuss a simple model in some detail. The dynamo operates even in partially and very weakly ionized discs without much modification.
- Type
- Accretion Discs
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 158: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1996 , pp. 97 - 106
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996
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