Advection-Dominated Accretion around Black Holes
Ramesh Narayan, Rohan Mahadevan, and Eliot Quataert (Harvard)
TL;DR
This paper reviews the physics of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and discusses their applications to black hole systems, emphasizing their potential to probe black hole event horizons.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of ADAF physics and explores their use in studying black hole event horizons, highlighting recent applications.
Findings
ADAF models explain low-luminosity black hole X-ray binaries.
ADAFs help differentiate between black holes and neutron stars.
Application of ADAFs to galactic nuclei offers insights into accretion physics.
Abstract
This article reviews the physics of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and describes applications to several black hole X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. The possibility of using ADAFs to explore the event horizons of black holes is highlighted.
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TopicsAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations