Growth of an astronomical object's mass by capture of surrounding matter. During planetary scattering, a collision can lead to accretion if material is retained by the planet; not every collision retains all material. An accretion disk is one particular geometry supplying material.
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- Accretion
- Accretion corona
- Circumgalactic medium
- Compact stellar object
- Constant-radius accretion energy budget
- Dwarf nova
- Expansion-front mass flux versus central accretion
- Expansion-wave mass budget
- Finite-age planetary scattering regimes
- First hydrostatic core
- Fragment survival in a self-gravitating planetary disk
- Gas dissipation in a galaxy merger
- James B. Pollack
- Michiel van der Klis
- Nonmagnetic cataclysmic variable
- Numerical Calculations of the Dynamics of a Collapsing Proto-Star by Richard B. Larson
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- Protoplanetary disk
- Protoplanetary disk dispersal
- Protostar
- Radiative efficiency
- Richard B. Larson
- Second protostellar collapse
- Seed-mass bound from Eddington-limited growth
- Star formation
- Transonic accretion in a steep dark-matter cusp
- Wind-fed black-hole binary
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