Inertial Instability of Accretion Disks with Relativistic Electrons

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We show that accretion disks with relativisticly hot electrons which are coupled to cold ions is subject to inertial-type instability in which kinematic drag between electrons and ions produces radial acceleration of electrons.
4 pages, submitted to ApJ Lett

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