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Effects of Kerr Spacetime on Spectral Features from X-Ray Illuminated Accretion Discs

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We performed detailed calculations of the relativistic effects acting on both the reflection continuum and the iron line from accretion discs around rotating black holes. Fully relativistic transfer of both illuminating and reprocessed photons has been considered in Kerr spacetime. We calculated overall spectra, line profiles and integral quantities, and present their dependences on the black hole angular momentum. We show that the observed EW of the lines is substantially enlarged when the black hole rotates rapidly and/or the source of illumination is near above the hole. Therefore, such calculations provide a way to distinguish among different models of the central source.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9910562,
  title  = {Effects of Kerr Spacetime on Spectral Features from X-Ray Illuminated Accretion Discs},
  author = {A. Martocchia and V. Karas and G. Matt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9910562},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, latex, 13 figures, 3 Tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS