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Studies Of States And State Transitions In Low Mass X-Ray Binaries, Charles Bradley
Studies Of States And State Transitions In Low Mass X-Ray Binaries, Charles Bradley
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
We investigate the model of a disk/coronal accretion flow into a black hole. We build a numerical code to ascertain whether the inner regions of an accretion disk in X-ray binaries can transform from a cool standard disk to an advection-dominated flow through the known properties of Coulomb interaction in a two-temperature plasma, taking into account viscous heating, standard radiation processes, and thermal conduction. A hot, diffuse corona covering the whole disk is powered by accretion, but it exchanges energy with the underlying cool disk through radiative interactions and conduction. If the accretion rate is low enough, at some intermediate …