Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of participants
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviaions
- 1 Accretion disks
- 2 The evolution of binary systems
- 3 Accretion onto white dwarfs
- 4 Multiwavelength observations of accretion in low-mass X-ray binary systems
- 5 X-ray binary populations in galaxies
- 6 Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes I
- 7 Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes II: environment and feedback
- 8 Computing black-hole accretion
- A Piazzi Smyth, the Cape of Good Hope, Tenerife, and the siting of large telescopes
- References
A - Piazzi Smyth, the Cape of Good Hope, Tenerife, and the siting of large telescopes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of participants
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviaions
- 1 Accretion disks
- 2 The evolution of binary systems
- 3 Accretion onto white dwarfs
- 4 Multiwavelength observations of accretion in low-mass X-ray binary systems
- 5 X-ray binary populations in galaxies
- 6 Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes I
- 7 Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes II: environment and feedback
- 8 Computing black-hole accretion
- A Piazzi Smyth, the Cape of Good Hope, Tenerife, and the siting of large telescopes
- References
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- Accretion Processes in Astrophysics , pp. 291 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014