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The Quiescent Emission Spectrum of Cen X-4 and other X-ray Transients containing Neutron Stars
Kristen Menou, Jeffrey E. McClintock
We use the observed optical-UV and X-ray emission spectrum of Cen X-4 during quiescence to constrain models for the accretion flow in this system. We argue that the optical-UV emis…
Ionization, Magneto-rotational, and Gravitational Instabilities in Thin Accretion Disks Around Supermassive Black Holes
Kristen Menou, Eliot Quataert
We consider the combined role of the thermal ionization, magneto-rotational and gravitational instabilities in thin accretion disks around supermassive black holes. We find that in…
X-Ray Lines from Hot Flows around White Dwarfs. Application to SS Cygni
Kristen Menou, Rosalba Perna, John Raymond
Rather than accreting via a disk, some White Dwarfs (WDs) in quiescent Dwarf Novae (DN) could accrete via an Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow (ADAF) possibly responsible for the…
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 for X-ray transients: evidence for evaporation and low alpha-viscosity ?
Kristen Menou, Jean-Marie Hameury, Jean-Pierre Lasota +1
We construct time-dependent models of accretion discs around black holes and neutron stars. We investigate the effect of evaporating the disc inner regions during quiescence on the…