Episodic accretion on to strongly magnetic stars
Episodic accretion on to strongly magnetic stars
Some accreting neutron stars and young stars show unexplained episodic flares in the form of quasi-periodic oscillations or recurrent outbursts. In a series of two papers, we present new work on an instability that can lead to episodic outbursts when the accretion disc is truncated by the star's strong magnetic …