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Power Density Spectra of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Andrei M. Beloborodov
Power density spectra (PDSs) of long gamma-ray bursts provide useful information on GRBs, indicating their self-similar temporal structure. The best power-law PDSs are displayed by…
astro-ph1999
Old and New Advances in Black Hole Accretion Disk Theory
Roland Svensson
A summary is given of the high-lights during the Reykjavik Midsummer Symposium on Non-Linear Phenomena in Accretion Discs around Black Holes. Such high-lights include the recent ad…
astro-ph1999
Thermalization Mechanisms in Compact Sources
Roland Svensson
There is strong observational evidence that a quasi-thermal population of electrons (or pairs) exists in compact X-ray sources. It is, however, unclear what mechanism thermalizes t…