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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

Academician Zeldovich and the foundations of disk accretion

N. I. Shakura

Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract: The author draws on his memories to review the decisive contributions of Ya B Zeldovich to the formation and development of the theory of disc accretion onto black holes and neutron stars in binaries. A theory developed by N I Shakura and R A Sunyaev in the early 1970s under the guidance of Ya B Zeldovich predicted these objects to be the brightest X-ray sources in the sky and defined the prospects for research in X-ray astronomy and high-energy astrophysics for decades ahead.

PACS: 04.25.dg, 97.10.Gz, 97.60.Jd

Received: November 5, 2013
Revised: December 5, 2013
Accepted: December 6, 2013

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0184.201404h.0445

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2014, 57:4, 407–412

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