Black hole binaries and microquasars

作     者：Shuang-Nan Zhang 

作者机构：Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics Institute of High Energy Physics Beijing 100049 China National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of physics》 (物理学前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第8卷第6期

页      面：630-660页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 08[工学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0704[理学-天文学] 081202[工学-计算机软件与理论] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Acknowledgements I appreciate inputs from Profs. Lijun Gou  Weimin Gu  Lixin Li  Bifang Liu  Dingxiong Wang  Wenfei Yu  Feng Yuan  and Shu Zhang. The editors of this book are thanked for inviting me to write this article  as well as their patience  persistency  proof reading it  and offering comments and suggestions to improve it in the end. This work was partially supported with funding the 973 Program of China under grant 2009CB824800  by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant Nos. 11133002 and 10725313 and the Qianren start-up grant 292012312Dl117210 

主　　题：accretion and accretion disks neutron stars black holes jets and bursts X-ray sources γ-ray sources X-ray binaries 

摘      要：This is a general review Oil the observations and physics of black hole X-ray binaries and microquasars, with the emphasize on recent developments in the high energy regime. The focus is put on understanding the accretion flows and measuring the parameters of black holes in them. It includes mainly two parts： i） Brief review of several recent review article on this subject; ii） Further development on several topics, including black hole spin measurements, hot accretion flows, corona formation, state transitions and thermal stability of standard think disk. This is thus not a regular bottom-up approach, which I feel not necessary at this stage. Major effort is made in making and incorporating from many sources useful plots and illustrations, in order to make this article more comprehensible to non-expert readers. In the end I attempt to make a unification scheme on the accretion-outflow （wind/jet） connections of all types of aecreting BHs of all accretion rates and all BH mass scales, and finally provide a brief outlook.