Accretion Disks

H. C. Spruit

Published 1995-02-26Version 1

This is an introduction to accretion disk theory, with emphasis on aspects relevant for X-ray Binaries and Cataclysmic Variables. The text corrects some mistakes in an earlier version, which appeared in 'Lives of Neutron Stars', A. Alpar, \"U. Kizilo\u glu and J. van Paradijs (eds.), Kluwer, Dordrecht (NATO ASI series, 1994).