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Instabilities of Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows

Xingming Chen

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9601116

Abstract

Accretion disk instabilities are briefly reviewed. Some details are given to the short-wavelength thermal instabilities and the convective instabilities. Time-dependent calculations of two-dimensional advection-dominated accretion flows are presented.

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