Black hole accretion discs: reality confronts theory
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Black hole accretion discs: reality confronts theory
Disc spectra from highly luminous black hole binaries are observed to be rather simple, despite theoretical predictions to the contrary. We collate the disc-dominated spectra from multiple observations of 10 separate sources, and show that these overwhelmingly follow a multi-temperature disc blackbody spectrum with luminosity∝ T , and that such discs are stable. These results are in conflict wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07266.x