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Line driven winds and the UV turnover in AGN accretion discs
Ari Laor, Shane W. Davis
AGN SEDs generally show a turnover at lambda 1000A, implying a maximal accretion disc (AD) temperature of T_max~50,000K. Massive O stars display a similar T_max, associated with a…
On the Thermal Stability of Radiation Dominated Accretion Disks
Yan-Fei Jiang, James Stone, Shane Davis
We study the long-term thermal stability of radiation dominated disks in which the vertical structure is determined self-consistently by the balance of heating due to dissipation o…
Dynamics of warped accretion discs
Scott Tremaine, Shane W. Davis
Accretion discs are present around both stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. A wide variety of circumstantial evidence…
Saturation of the MRI in Strongly Radiation Dominated Accretion Disks
Yan-Fei Jiang, James M. Stone, Shane W. Davis
The saturation level of the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in a strongly radiation dominated accretion disk is studied using a new Godunov radiation MHD code in the unstratif…