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- Introduction
- Introduction, Literature
- Accretion Luminosity
- Eddington luminosity, Emitted spectrum
- Accretion Disks
- Roche Geometry, Roche Lobe Overflow, Thin Disks, Thin Disks: Vertical Structure and Mass Conservation, Thin Disks: Angular Momentum Transport, Thin Disks: Temperature Profile, Thin Disks: Emitted Spectrum, Viscosity
- Thin Disks: Comparison with observations
- Galactic Black Holes
- Wind Accretion
- Wind Accretion, Bondi-Hoyle Accretion, Wind accretion, Accretion in HMXB