Can Quasars Really Emit Beyond Their Eddington Limit?

Aziza · Nov 28, 2012

A study is showing that higher redshift quasars emit more and more above their Eddington limit. How is this possible? Shouldnt this be causing the accretion disk to fly apart?

Drakkith · Nov 29, 2012

Do you have a link to this study?

Aziza · Nov 29, 2012

Drakkith said:

Do you have a link to this study?

yup here it is!

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1XHScFrhhEYJ:symposia.obs.carnegiescience.edu/series/symposium1/ms/szuszkiewicz_ms.ps.gz+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

goldsax · Dec 4, 2012

the study tries to give an explantion .
it has been known for a while that the Eddington Limit(Le) can be exceeded for periods of time..
but recall that the Le is a hypthetical limit based on the presumption that all the material is ionized hydorgen and all the material is accreted uniformally.

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