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Accretion Outbursts

Accretion Outbursts is a transient astrophysical phenomenon characterized by a sudden, significant increase in luminosity and mass accretion rate onto a compact object, distinguishing it from steady-state accretion processes by its episodic and highly variable nature.

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THE FU ORIONIS PHENOMENON

Lee Hartmann, Scott J. Kenyon · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 1996 · 838 citations

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Observations of Accreting Pulsars

Lars Bildsten, Deepto Chakrabarty, John Chiu et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1997 · 750 citations · Full text

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Numerical simulations of accretion discs – I. Superhumps: a tidal phenomenon of accretion discs

R. Whitehurst · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1988 · 501 citations · Full text

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Absolute magnitudes of cataclysmic variables

Brian D. Warner · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1987 · 364 citations · Full text

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OJ 287 Outburst Structure and a Binary Black Hole Model

H. J. Lehto, M. J. Valtonen · The Astrophysical Journal · 1996 · 349 citations

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  1. RW
    R. Wijnands

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    17 publications · 845 citations

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  2. ND
    N. Degenaar

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    13 publications · 418 citations

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  3. ML
    Mario Livio

    Space Telescope Science Institute, United States

    12 publications · 629 citations

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  4. ÁK
    Á. Kóspál

    Konkoly Observatory, Hungary

    11 publications · 365 citations

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  5. EI
    Eduard I. Vorobyov

    University of Vienna, Austria

    10 publications · 520 citations

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  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    30 h-index

    59 publications

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  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    25 h-index

    93 publications

    5.1K citations

  3. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    24 h-index

    84 publications

    3.6K citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    46 publications

    2K citations

  5. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    21 h-index

    104 publications

    8.6K citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

    Garching bei München, Germany

    20 h-index

    28 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    20 h-index

    38 publications

    2.3K citations

  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    53 publications

    2.3K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 147 publications · 8.5K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    51 publications · 2.3K citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    22 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

    Repository · 12 publications · 290 citations

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