Accretion Disk Models of Luminous Black Holes

Abstract

Models of X-ray production in black-hole sources are reviewed and compared with recent observations. Possible diagnostics of the hot-disk and disk-corona models are discussed in the light of spectral and temporal data. A new model of a small-scale inviscid accretion disk is presented.

Invited review at the 33rd Cospar Assembly, Warsaw, 2000. Adv. Space Res., in press

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