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arxiv: astro-ph/9910365 · v1 · submitted 1999-10-20 · 🌌 astro-ph

Accretion-Ejection Instability and a "Magnetic Flood" scenario for GRS 1915+105

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keywords instabilityscenariocyclesmagneticaccretionaccretion-ejectionbinariesbriefly
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We present an instability, occurring in the inner region of magnetized accretion disks, which seems to be a good candidate to explain the low-frequency QPO observed in many X-ray binaries. We then briefly show how, in the remarkable case of the microquasar GRS 1915+105, identifying this QPO with our instability leads to a scenario for the $\sim$ 30 mn cycles of this source. In this scenario the cycles are controlled by the build-up of magnetic flux in the disk.

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