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Accretion

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Accretion is central to the study of high-energy astrophysics.

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Courvoisier, T.JL. (2013). Accretion. In: High Energy Astrophysics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30970-0_10

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