Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- 1 ACCRETION AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY
- 2 GAS DYNAMICS
- 3 PLASMA CONCEPTS
- 4 ACCRETION IN BINARY SYSTEMS
- 5 ACCRETION DISCS
- 6 ACCRETION ON TO A COMPACT OBJECT
- 7 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- 8 ACCRETION DISCS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- 9 ACCRETION POWER IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- 10 THICK DISCS
- 11 ACCRETION FLOWS
- Appendix: Radiation processes
- Problems
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - ACCRETION DISCS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- 1 ACCRETION AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY
- 2 GAS DYNAMICS
- 3 PLASMA CONCEPTS
- 4 ACCRETION IN BINARY SYSTEMS
- 5 ACCRETION DISCS
- 6 ACCRETION ON TO A COMPACT OBJECT
- 7 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- 8 ACCRETION DISCS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- 9 ACCRETION POWER IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- 10 THICK DISCS
- 11 ACCRETION FLOWS
- Appendix: Radiation processes
- Problems
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Accretion Power in Astrophysics , pp. 244 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002