Observations of the Accretion Disks of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
 
I will review observations of accreting black holes and neutron stars with emphasis on the X-ray timing and spectral properties associated with radiation from the inner accretion disk.
 
Topics:
 
X-ray sources and transients ; Identifying black hole binaries (BHBs); X-ray spectral states of BHBs; jets; the problem of the steep power law spectrum; X-ray timing analysis methods; Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) and proposed mechanisms; comments on physical models and challenges for general relativity (GR).
 
types of accreting neutron stars (NS); NS accretion states; NS spectral analyses and applications; NS QPOs; comments on physical models and challenges for GR.