Hyper-accreting black holes
arXiv:0810.2690 · doi:10.1063/1.3002509
Abstract
Hyper-accretion disks are short-lived, powerful sources of neutrinos and magnetized jets. Such disks are plausible sources of gamma-ray bursts. This review describes the disk structure, the neutrino conversion to electron-positron plasma around the disk, and the post-burst evolution.
20 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "Cool discs, hot flows: The Varying Faces of Accreting Compact Objects", Funasdalen, Sweden, March 2008