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Accretion disc theory (A.M. Beloborodov)

Super-Eddington accretion discs were then studied numerically. It was found that a disc with a large viscosity parameter ( tex2html_wrap_inline243 ) gets strongly overheated at super-Eddington accretion rates. The emission of the overheated relativistic discs may contribute to the X-ray spectra from quasars.



Juri Poutanen & Roland Svensson