Black-Hole Accretion Disks: Towards a New Paradigm

By Shoji Kato, Mineshige Shin, Fukue Jun

Since publication of the first edition, models of advection-dominated accretion flows and their comparison with observations have been much developed and deepened, including the cases of super-Eddington accretion. The launch of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer led to the discovery of high-frequency oscillations, which opened a new field of discoseismology. In addition, development of observational techniques show that the time when we see a direct image or silhouette of black holes is in the near future. Considering these situations, we fully revised the first edition in order to meet the developments mentioned above.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4876987408
• ISBN13: 9784876987405
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
• Length: 549 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"