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Accretion Disks

Accretion Disks is an astrophysical disk structure in star-forming systems that consists of gas and dust in (approximately) Keplerian rotation around a central protostar or young star, through which material transports angular momentum outward and mass inward, thereby mediating stellar growth and setting the initial conditions for planet formation.

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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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Formation of the Giant Planets by Concurrent Accretion of Solids and Gas

James B. Pollack, O. Hubickyj, Peter Bodenheimer et al. · Icarus · 1996 · 3.1K citations

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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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Gamma-ray bursts from stellar mass accretion disks around black holes

S. E. Woosley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1993 · 2.5K citations

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  1. DJ
    David J. Wilner

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    92 publications · 12.5K citations

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  2. LH
    Lee Hartmann

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    92 publications · 14.4K citations

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  3. LT
    L. Testi

    Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy

    86 publications · 8.8K citations

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  4. CP
    C. P. Dullemond

    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany

    78 publications · 11.2K citations

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  5. NC
    Nuria Calvet

    University of Michigan, United States

    83 publications · 14.4K citations

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  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

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  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    120 h-index

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  3. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    108 h-index

    1.2K publications

    99.9K citations

  4. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    102 h-index

    551 publications

    61.8K citations

  5. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    96 h-index

    630 publications

    58.1K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    92 h-index

    395 publications

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  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    585 publications

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  8. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

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    593 publications

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 2.7K publications · 274.3K citations

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  3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    271 publications · 19.1K citations

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  5. Nature

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