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Explaining the spectrum from the Galactic Centre using a two temperature plasma
Rohan Mahadevan
The radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is thought to be a supermassive black hole located at the centre of our Galaxy, that is accreting gas from the surrounding region. Using t…
astro-ph1998
Advection-Dominated Accretion around Black Holes
Ramesh Narayan, Rohan Mahadevan, Eliot Quataert
This article reviews the physics of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and describes applications to several black hole X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. The possibility…