Accretion Flows in X-ray Binaries

Abstract

I review the X-ray observations of Galactic accreting black holes and neutron stars, and interpretions of these in terms of solutions of the accretion flow equations.

13 pages; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences), submitted

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