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Accretion Disk Plasmas

Accretion Disk Plasmas is a theoretical construct representing magnetized, high-temperature plasma flows in differentially rotating circumstellar disks, distinguished by their role in mediating angular momentum transport and radiative energy conversion in astrophysical accretion systems.

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A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. I - Linear analysis. II - Nonlinear evolution

Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1991 · 4.5K citations

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Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets

R. D. Blandford, D. G. Payne · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1982 · 4.1K citations · Full text

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Instability, turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks

Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1998 · 2.6K citations

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Accretion Discs in Astrophysics

J. E. Pringle · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 1981 · 2.2K citations

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Advection-dominated Accretion: Underfed Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Ramesh Narayan, Insu Yi · The Astrophysical Journal · 1995 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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    R. V. E. Lovelace

    Cornell University, United States

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    A. C. Fabian

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    J. M. Mïller

    University of Michigan, United States

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    Mitchell C. Begelman

    Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, United States

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    Eliot Quataert

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

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  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

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    Greenbelt, United States

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    Princeton, United States

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    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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