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The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Foreword
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    Chapter 2 Searching for Black Holes in Space
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    Chapter 3 General Overview of Black Hole Accretion Theory
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    Chapter 4 Fast Variability from Black-Hole Binaries
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    Chapter 5 Modelling Spectral and Timing Properties of Accreting Black Holes: The Hybrid Hot Flow Paradigm
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    Chapter 6 Current Status of Simulations
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    Chapter 7 Observational Tests of the Picture of Disk Accretion
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    Chapter 8 Observational Appearance of Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries and AGN
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    Chapter 9 Scaling Relations from Stellar to Supermassive Black Holes
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    Chapter 10 Menus for Feeding Black Holes
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    Chapter 11 Massive Binary Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei and Their Path to Coalescence
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    Chapter 12 Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
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    Chapter 13 Measuring the Masses of Supermassive Black Holes
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    Chapter 14 Measuring Black Hole Spin Using X-Ray Reflection Spectroscopy
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    Chapter 15 Black Hole Spin via Continuum Fitting and the Role of Spin in Powering Transient Jets
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    Chapter 16 An Overview of Jets and Outflows in Stellar Mass Black Holes
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    Chapter 17 X-Ray Observations of Powerful AGN Outflows
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    Chapter 18 Outflow Launching Mechanisms
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    Chapter 19 Energetic and Broad Band Spectral Distribution of Emission from Astronomical Jets
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    Chapter 20 Jet–Environment Interactions as Diagnostics of Jet Physics
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    Chapter 21 The Supermassive Black Hole—Galaxy Connection
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    Chapter 22 Multi-Wavelength Variability
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    Chapter 23 Black Hole Studies: Overview and Outlook
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Title
The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes
Published by
Springer New York, October 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2227-7
ISBNs
978-1-4939-2226-0, 978-1-4939-2227-7
Editors

Falanga, Maurizio, Belloni, Tomaso, Casella, Piergiorgio, Gilfanov, Marat, Jonker, Peter, King, Andrew

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 44%
Student > Bachelor 3 17%
Student > Master 3 17%
Unspecified 2 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 12 67%
Unspecified 3 17%
Engineering 2 11%
Computer Science 1 6%