Accretion in Stellar-Mass Black Holes at High X-ray Spectral Resolution
Abstract
Accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes offer unique opportunities to study the fundamental physics of standard thin disks, super-Eddington disks, and structure that may be connected to flux variability. These local analogues of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are particularly attractive for their proximity, high flux, and peak emissivity in the X-ray band. X-ray calorimeter spectrometers, with energy resolutions of 2-5 eV, are ideally suited to study accretion in stellar-mass black holes. The results will make strong tests of seminal disk theory that applies in a broad range of circumstances, help to drive new numerical simulations, and will inform our understanding of AGN fueling, evolution, and feedback.
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@article{arxiv.1903.04065,
title = {Accretion in Stellar-Mass Black Holes at High X-ray Spectral Resolution},
author = {J. M. Miller and D. Barret and E. Cackett and M. Diaz Trigo and C. Done and E. Gallo and J. Kaastra and C. Motch and C. Pinto and G. Ponti and N. Webb and A. Zoghbi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04065},
year = {2019}
}
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White Paper, submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey