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Variability of Black Hole Accretion Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Michael A. Nowak  and
Robert V. Wagoner
Michael A. Nowak
Affiliation:
CITA, 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A7
Robert V. Wagoner
Affiliation:
Stanford, Dept. of Physics and CSSA, Stanford, CA 94305-4060

Abstract

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We consider two forms of variability in black hole accretion disks: harmonically oscillating modes trapped near the disk inner edge, and noisy fluctuations throughout the entire disk. We apply the former to AGN disks, and the latter to the X-ray power spectra of GX339-4.

Keywords

accretion diskharmonic oscillationsX-ray power spectraGX339-4
Type
Poster Contributions: Disks Structure and Emission
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 487
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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