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Dynamo Driven Accretion Discs and Dwarf Nova Eruptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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A magnetic dynamo whose crucial ingredient is the Balbus-Hawley instability (Balbus & Hawley 1991) is a promising candidate for generating accretion disc viscosity. Both semi-quantitative analyses (Tout & Pringle 1992) and simulations (e.g. Brandenberg et al. 1995) suggest that such dynamos can operate in a disc environment. Here we aim to apply simple dynamo ideas to models of dwarf novae, and in particular investigate how dynamo driven discs can produce different values for α in quiescence and in outburst.
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- Accretion Discs
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 158: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1996 , pp. 107 - 108
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996