The Physics of Black Hole X-ray Transients
| dc.creator | Wheeler, J. Craig | |
| dc.creator | Kim, S. -W. | |
| dc.creator | Moscoso, M. D. | |
| dc.creator | Kusunose, M. | |
| dc.creator | Mineshige, S. | |
| dc.date | 1996-01-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:20:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:20:42Z | |
| dc.description | The most plausible mechanism for triggering the outburst of black hole candidate X-ray transients is the ionization thermal instability. The disk instability models can give the observed mass flow in quiescence, but not the X-ray spectrum. Self-irradiation of the disk in outburst may not lead to X-ray reprocessing as the dominant source of optical light, but may play a role in the "reflare." The hard power-law spectrum and radio bursts may be non-thermal processes driven by the flow of pair-rich plasma from the disk at early times and due to the formation of a pair-rich plasma corona at late times. The repeated outbursts suggest some sort of clock, but it is unlikely that it has anything to do with a simple X-ray heating of the companion star. | |
| dc.description | LaTex 6 pages. To appear in the Kyoto Workshop on the Basic Physics of Accretion Disks eds S. Kato, S. Inagaki, J. Fukue, and S. Mineshige (New York: Gordon and Breach). Also available on http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/index.html | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9601003 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9601003 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10293 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The Physics of Black Hole X-ray Transients | |
| dc.type | text |