lazygun37
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7 years ago By "magic" :)
More seriously, as we discussed, all we really know about alpha from the theoretical point of view is that alpha < 1. On top of this, observations suggest that typically 0.01 < alpha < 0.1 in astrophysical accretion disk. So -- at least for the moment -- just assume it's a constant that you can set in the model.
Cheers,
C
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We know that it is <<1
we currently have it modelled as a random number between 0 - 1