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PHYSICS-USPEKHI
Volume 51, Issue 6, Pages 551-576Publisher
TURPION LTD
DOI: 10.1070/PU2008v051n06ABEH006583
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Program of the President of the Russian Federation
- Physical Sciences Branch of the RAS
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The current status of the physics of accretion disks in close binary stars is reviewed, with an emphasis on the hydrodynamic overreflection instability, which is a factor leading to the accretion disk turbulence. The estimated turbulent viscosity coefficients are in good agreement with observations and explain the high angular momentum transfer rate and the measured accretion rate. Based on the observations, a power-law spectrum for the developed turbulence is obtained.
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