Alan Paige Lightman
Affiliations: | 1976-1989 | Astronomy | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States |
| 1989- | Humanities | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States |
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Lightman, Alan Paige, Time-dependent accretion disks around compact objects. Theoretical frameworks for analyzing and testing gravitation theories. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology (1974).
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| (I. Time-Dependent Accretion Disks Around Compact Objects and II. Theoretical Frameworks for Analyzing and Testing Gravitation Theories) | ||||
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| Zdziarski AA, Lightman AP, Maciołek-Niedźwiecki A. (1993) Acceleration efficiency in nonthermal sources and the soft gamma rays from NGC 4151 observed by OSSE and SIGMA Astrophysical Journal. 414 |
| White TR, Lightman AP. (1990) Instabilities and time evolution of hot accretion disks with electron-positron pairs Astrophysical Journal. 352: 495-505 |
| White TR, Lightman AP. (1989) Hot accretion disks with electron-positron pairs The Astrophysical Journal. 340: 1024-1037 |
| Lightman AP, Press WH. (1989) Surfaces of constant redshift in an inflationary universe The Astrophysical Journal. 337: 598 |
| Lightman AP, White TR. (1988) Effects of Cold Matter in Active Galactic Nuclei: A Broad Hump in the X-Ray Spectra The Astrophysical Journal. 335: 57-66 |
| White TR, Lightman AP, Zdiziarski AA. (1988) Compton reflection of gamma rays by cold electrons The Astrophysical Journal. 331: 939-948 |
| Lightman AP, Zdziarski AA, Rees MJ. (1987) Effects of electron-positron pair opacity for spherical accretion onto black holes The Astrophysical Journal. 315: L113 |
| Press WH, Lightman AP. (1983) Dependence of macrophysical phenomena on the values of the fundamental constants Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 310: 323-336 |
| Lightman AP, Grindlay JE. (1982) X-ray illumination of globular cluster puzzles The Astrophysical Journal. 262: 145 |
| Lightman AP. (1982) X-rays from quasars and active galaxies Space Science Reviews. 33: 335-357 |