AAS 199th meeting, Washington, DC, January 2002
Session 121. Frontiers in High Energy Astrophysics
Invited, Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 3:40-5:10pm, International Ballroom Center

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[121.01] Low Radiative Efficiency Accretion Flows

E. Quataert (UC Berkeley)

In the past few years, there has been an important shift in the theoretical understanding of low radiative efficiency accretion flows onto black holes: strong convection and strong outflows can significantly modify the structure of the accretion flow. I review these results and discuss their observational implications for low-luminosity X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei.


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