DIM light on Black Hole X-ray Transients

G. Dubus (1, 2)

1 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
2 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

The current model for the outburst of stellar-mass black holes X-ray binaries is the disk instability model (DIM). An overview of this model and a discussion of its theoretical and observational challenges are given.

Mots clés: X-ray binaries; Infall; accretion; and accretion disks

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

G. Dubus. DIM light on Black Hole X-ray Transients. Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation, Jun 2005, Torun, Poland. pp.153-158, ⟨10.1063/1.2141853⟩. ⟨in2p3-00110592⟩