Accretion

Accretion may refer to:

  • Accretion (astrophysics)
  • Accretion (atmosphere), the process by which water vapor in clouds forms water droplets around nucleation sites.
  • Accretion (meteorology), the process by which a larger hydro-meteor grows by collecting smaller ones lying in its path as it falls through a cloud.
  • Accretion (geology), the increase in size of a tectonic plate by addition of material along a convergent boundary
  • Accretion (coastal management), the process where coastal sediments return to the visible portion of the beach following storm erosion
  • Accretion (finance), predictable changes in the price of certain securities

Other articles related to "accretion":

T Tauri Wind - The Character of Accretion and Stellar Wind Parameters of T Tauri Stars
... portion of emission continuum of Classic T Tauri Stars is formed outside the accretion shock, what means a great deal of accretion matter falls onto the star in nearly horizontal direction ... We suggest two scenarios to explain such nature of accretion two-stream accretion (through boundary layer and magnetosphere) and magnetospheric accretion by way of streams, the bulk of matter in which falls onto ...
Bondi Accretion
... Bondi Accretion is spherical accretion onto an object ... It is generally used in the context of neutron star and black hole accretion for a compact object traveling through the interstellar medium ... To achieve an approximate form of the Bondi accretion rate, accretion is assumed to occur at a rate where is the ambient density, is either the velocity of the object or the sound speed in ...
Stellar Birthline
... of protostars at the end of the initial phase of accretion onto them ... The location of the stellar birthline depends on the stellar structure, the accretion rate onto the star and geometry of this accretion, i.e ... whether or not it is occurring through an accretion disk ...
Active Galactic Nucleus - Models of The Active Nucleus - Radiatively Inefficient AGN
... There exists a class of 'radiatively inefficient' solutions to the equations that govern accretion ... The most widely known of these is the Advection Dominated Accretion Flow (ADAF), but others exist ... In this type of accretion, which is important for accretion rates well below the Eddington limit, the accreting matter does not form a thin disc and consequently does not radiate away the energy ...

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