Simulating the Collapse of a Thick Accretion Disk due to a Type I X-ray Burst from a Neutron Star

P. Chris Fragile, David R. Ballantyne, Thomas J. Maccarone +1

We use two-dimensional, general relativistic, viscous, radiation hydrodynamic simulations to study the impact of a Type I X-ray burst on a hot and geometrically thick accretion dis…