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ISBN Number: 9780792326090
Author: Duschl, Wolfgang J.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Editor: Frank, Juhan
Editor: Meyer, F.
Subject: Astrophysics
Subject: Congresses
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Mechanics, General
Subject: Astronomy, General
Series: Mathematics and Its Applications
Series Volume: 417
Publication Date: September 2007
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Illustrations: Y
Number of Pages: 440
Book Size: 921x614x100 175
Proceedings of a NATO advanced research workshop held in Garching,
Germany, in March 1993. Topics include proplanetary disks,
magnetospheric accretion and winds from pre-main sequenced disks,
forbidden line diagnostics of disk winds in YSOs, magnetized
accretion disks and the origin of bipolar flows, wind magnetospheres
of prostellar accretion disks, accretion disks in cataclysmic
variable stars, eccentric disk instabilities and their relation to
superhump binaries, and sequencing of long and short outbursts in
dwarf novae.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:
Accretion disks in astrophysics represent the characteristic flow by which compact bodies accrete mass from their environment. Their intrinsically high luminosity, and recent progress in observational accessibility at all wavelength bands, have led to rapidly growing awareness of their importance and made them the object of intense research on widely different scales, ranging from binary stars to young stellar objects and active galactic nuclei. This book contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Theory of Accretion Disks 2' for which some of the most active researchers in the different fields came together at the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics in Garching in March, 1993. Its reviews and contributions give an up-to-date account of the present status of our understanding and provide a stimulating challenge in discussions of open questions in a rapidly developing field.
