Observational manifestations of accretion onto isolated black holes of different masses
Abstract
The process of accretion onto the isolated black holes under the various conditions of the ISM and its observational manifestations are discussed. For the majority of the Galaxy volume the accretion rate is as low as 10−6-10−9 of Eddington one, and the accretion is spherically-symmetric. Such objects manifest itself as a weak optical and x-ray sources with featureless spectra and the significant variability of the emission.
- Publication:
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Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses
- Pub Date:
- April 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921307005601
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..238..391K
- Keywords:
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- Accretion;
- black hole physics;
- ISM: clouds;
- ISM: general