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Structure and properties of transition fronts in accretion discs
Kristen Menou, Jean-Marie Hameury, Rudolf Stehle
We use high-resolution time-dependent numerical simulations of accretion discs around white dwarfs to study the structure and properties of transition fronts in the context of the…
A Population of Faint Non-Transient Low Mass Black Hole Binaries
Kristen Menou, Ramesh Narayan, Jean-Pierre Lasota
We study the thermal and viscous stability of accretion flows in Low Mass Black Hole Binaries (LMBHBs). We consider a model in which an inner advection-dominated accretion flow (AD…
On the Cosmological Evolution of the Luminosity Function and the Accretion Rate of Quasars
Zoltan Haiman, Kristen Menou
We consider a class of models for the redshift evolution (between $0\lsim z \lsim 4$) of the observed optical and X-ray quasar luminosity functions (LFs), with the following assump…
Black Hole and Neutron Star Transients in Quiescence
Kristen Menou, Ann A. Esin, Ramesh Narayan +3
We consider the X-ray luminosity difference between neutron star and black hole soft X-ray transients (NS and BH SXTs) in quiescence. The current observational data suggest that BH…
Accretion disc outbursts: a new version of an old model
Jean-Marie Hameury, Kristen Menou, Guillaume Dubus +2
We have developed 1D time-dependent numerical models of accretion discs, using an adaptive grid technique and an implicit numerical scheme, in which the disc size is allowed to var…
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…