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Accretion onto Relativistic Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

M. J. Rees*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, England
*
Present address: Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA.

Abstract

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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.

Type
Part III: Accretion of Matter and X-Ray Sources
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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