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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions
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Accretion Disks in Stellar-Mass Black Holes: Implications for AGNs
Jon Miller
University of Michigan
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Abstract:
Stellar-mass black holes can be viewed as local laboratories for the
study of accretion in active galactic nuclei. The timescales natural
to stellar-mass black holes, and their proximity, affords the
opportunity to carefully study the evolution of disks, coronae, winds,
and jets. A decade of observations with RXTE, Chandra, and XMM-Newton
have greatly added to a picture where accretion processes simply scale
with mass. This talk will review a subset of recent developments in
stellar-mass black holes, similarities with phenomena observed in AGN,
and discuss ways to better establish the scalability of black hole
accretion using current and future observatories.
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