Understanding Simulations of Thin Accretion Disks by Energy Equation
  We study the fluctuations of standard thin accretion disks by linear analysis of the time-dependent energy equation together with the vertical hydrostatic equilibrium and the equation of state. We show that some of the simulation results in Hirose et al. (2009b), such as the time delay, the relationship of power spectra, and the correlation between magnetic energy and radiation energy, can be well understood by our analytic results. 
Da-Bin Lin, Wei-Min Gu, Tong Liu, Mou-Yuan Sun, and Ju-Fu Lu
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