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Disk Instability Model

The Disk Instability Model is a theoretical framework in astrophysics that explains the episodic outbursts in X-ray binaries through thermal-viscous instabilities in the accretion disk, distinguishing it from steady accretion models by attributing variability to opacity-driven transitions in the disk’s ionization state.

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The disc instability model of dwarf novae and low-mass X-ray binary transients

New Astronomy Reviews · 2001 · 934 citations · Full text

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Radiation Pressure–supported Starburst Disks and Active Galactic Nucleus Fueling

Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Norman Murray · The Astrophysical Journal · 2005 · 803 citations · Full text

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Black Holes in Binary Systems: Instability of Disk Accretion

Alan P. Lightman, Douglas M. Eardley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1974 · 617 citations

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A Theory of the Instability of disk Accretion on to Black Holes and the Variability of Binary X-ray Sources, Galactic Nuclei and Quasars*

N. I. Shakura, R. Sunyaev · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1976 · 600 citations · Full text

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The disc instability model of dwarf-novae and low-mass X-ray binary transients

CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2001 · 493 citations

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Authors

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  1. JP
    J. P. Lasota

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    14 publications · 896 citations

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  2. AP
    Alan P. Boss

    Carnegie Institution for Science, United States

    10 publications · 1.6K citations

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  3. JM
    J. M. Hameury

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    10 publications · 701 citations

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  4. SM
    Shin Mineshige

    Kyoto University, Japan

    9 publications · 469 citations

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  5. YO
    Yoji Osaki

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    8 publications · 781 citations

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Institutions

354

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    25 h-index

    81 publications

    5.3K citations

  2. Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

    Paris, France

    18 h-index

    24 publications

    2K citations

  3. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    23 publications

    1K citations

  4. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    22 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    14 h-index

    20 publications

    2K citations

  6. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    13 h-index

    20 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. Carnegie Institution for Science

    Washington, United States

    13 h-index

    13 publications

    1.8K citations

  8. Carnegie Observatories

    Pasadena, United States

    13 h-index

    13 publications

    1.8K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 97 publications · 9K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    37 publications · 2K citations

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  4. 12

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    9 publications · 369 citations

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