The Inner Boundary Condition for a Thin Disk Accreting Into a Black Hole

Abstract

Contrary to some recent claims the `no torque inner boundary condition' as applied at the marginally stable orbit is correct for geometrically thin disks accreting into black holes.

3 pages, latex, submitted on April 10, 2000 to The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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