Continuum Line Emission and Indirect Imaging of Accretion Disks

- Continuum spectral energy distributions.

- synthesizing theoretical S.E.D.s

   - observations and results

- Line emission from accretion disks

   - basic principles and the energy budget of the disk

   - calculation of line profiles (static and variable profiles)

   - comparison of models with observations

   - absorption and emission lines from winds

   - lines from the inner disk as probes of strong gravity

- What can we learn from observations of eclipses in binaries

   - location of important components of the system

   - constraints on sizes of emitting regions

- Methods of indirect imaging of accretion disks in binaries

   - basic principles of eclipse mapping and tomography

   - fundamental assumptions and limitations of the metods

   - results and constraints on the theory