Accreting Black Holes
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2020-08-18 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This chapter provides a general overview of the theory and observations of black holes in the Universe and on their interpretation. We briefly review the black hole classes, accretion disk models, spectral state classification, the AGN classification, and the leading techniques for measuring black hole spins. We also introduce quasi-periodic oscillations, the shadow of black holes, and the observations and the theoretical models of jets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.07041,
title = {Accreting Black Holes},
author = {Sourabh Nampalliwar and Cosimo Bambi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07041},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
41 pages, 18 figures. To appear in "Tutorial Guide to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy: Data Reduction and Analysis" (Ed. C. Bambi, Springer Singapore, 2020). v3: fixed some typos and updated some parts. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1711.10256