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Accretion a collection of influential papers

Ch. 1. Introductory paper. 1. Basic elements of the theory of accretion / A. Treves, L. Maraschi and M. Abramowicz -- ch. 2. The seminal papers. 2. The effect of interstellar matter on climatic variation / F. Hoyle and R.A. Lyttleton -- 3. On spherically symmetrical accretion / H. Bondi -- 4. Accretion of interstellar matter by massive objects / E. Salpeter -- 5. The fate of a star and the evolution of gravitational energy upon accretion / Ya. B. Zel'dovich -- 6. Binary stars among cataclysmic variables - I.U Geminorum stars (dwarf novae) / R.P. Kraft -- 7. On the nature of the source of X-ray emission of Sco XR-1 / I.S. Shklovsky -- 8. On the nature of some galactic X-ray sources / K.H. Prendergast and G.R. Burbidge -- 9. X-ray emission accompanying the accretion of gas by a neutron star / Ya. B. Zel'dovich and N.I. Shakura -- 10. Galactic nuclei as collapsed old quasars / D. Lynden-Bell -- 11. An accretion model for the outbursts of U Geminorum stars / Y. Osaki -- ch. 3. The standard accretion theory. 12. Halos around black holes / V.F. Shvartsman -- 13. Accretion disc models for compact X-ray sources / J.E. Pringle and M.J. Rees -- 14. Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance / N.I. Shakura and R.A. Sunyaev -- 15. X-ray emission from a neutron star accreting material / M.L. Alme and J.R. Wilson -- 16. A model for compact X-ray sources: accretion by rotating magnetic stars / F.K. Lamb, C.J. Pethick and D. Pines -- 17. Accretion onto massive black holes / J.E. Pringle, M.J. Rees and A.G. Pacholczyk -- 18. Accretion onto neutron stars under adiabatic shock conditions / S.L. Shapiro and E.E. Salpeter -- 19. Black holes in binary systems: instabilities of disk accretion / A.P. Lightman and D.M. Eardley -- 20. Radiation from spherical accretion onto black holes / P. Mészáros -- 21. X-ray emission from accretion onto white dwarfs / A.C. Fabian, J.E. Pringle and M.J. Rees -- 22. The evolution of viscous discs - II. Viscous variations / G.T. Bath and J.E. Pringle -- ch. 4. Some further developments. 23. The effect of radiation pressure on accretion disks around black holes / L. Maraschi, C. Reina and A. Treves -- 24. Thick accretion disks with super-Eddington luminosities / M.A. Abramowicz, M. Calvani and L. Nobili -- 25. Thick accretion disks and supercritical luminosities / B. Paczyńsky and P.J. Wiita -- 26. A two-temperature accretion disk model for Cygnus X-1: structure and spectrum / S.L. Shapiro, A.P. Lightman and D.M. Eardley -- 27. Ion-supported tori and the origin of radio jets / M.J. Rees [und weitere] -- 28. Shocks in spherically accreting black holes: a model for classical quasars / P. Mészáros and J.P. Ostriker -- 29. Accretion by rotating magnetic neutron stars - III. Accretion torques and period changes in pulsating X-ray sources / P. Ghosh and F.K. Lamb
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