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Hot Accretion With Saturated Conduction
Kristen Menou
Observations of the hot gas surrounding Sgr A* and a few other nearby galactic nuclei imply electron and proton mean free paths comparable to the gas capture radius: hot accretion…
The Mass Budget of Merging Quasars
Kristen Menou, Zoltan Haiman
Two spectacular results emerging from recent studies of nearby dead quasars and distant active quasars are (i) the existence of tight relations between the masses of black holes (B…
Advection-Dominated Accretion Onto Weakly-Magnetized White Dwarfs
Kristen Menou
The boundary layers of weakly-magnetized white dwarfs (WDs) accreting at rates <=10^16 g/s are radially extended, hot, optically-thin, and they advect some of their internally-diss…
Disc instability models, evaporation and radius variations
Jean-Marie Hameury, Guillaume Dubus, Jean-Pierre Lasota +1
We show that the outcome of disc instability models is strongly influenced by boundary conditions such as the position of the inner and outer disc edges. We discuss other sources o…
Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons
Kristen Menou, Eliot Quataert, Ramesh Narayan
Astronomers have discovered many potential black holes in X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. These black holes are usually identified by the fact that they are too massive to be n…
Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons
K. Menou, E. Quataert, R. Narayan
Astronomers have discovered many potential black holes in X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. These black holes are usually identified by the fact that they are too massive to be n…