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Advection-Dominated Accretion around Black Holes

Ramesh Narayan, Rohan Mahadevan, Eliot Quataert

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9803141

Abstract

This article reviews the physics of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and describes applications to several black hole X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. The possibility of using ADAFs to explore the event horizons of black holes is highlighted.

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