Probing the Black Hole Engine with Measurements of the Relativistic X-ray Reflection Component
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-03-19 v1
Abstract
Over the last decades X-ray spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful tool for the estimation of black hole spin and several other key parameters in dozens of AGN and black hole X-ray binaries. In this White Paper, we discuss the observational and theoretical challenges expected in the exploration, discovery, and study of astrophysical black holes in the next decade. We focus on the case of accreting black holes and their electromagnetic signatures, with particular emphasis on the measurement of the relativistic reflection component in their X-ray spectra.
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@article{arxiv.1903.07130,
title = {Probing the Black Hole Engine with Measurements of the Relativistic X-ray Reflection Component},
author = {Javier A. García and Matteo Bachetti and David R. Ballantyne and Laura Brenneman and Murray Brightman and Riley M. Connors and Thomas Dauser and Andrew Fabian and Felix Fuerst and Poshak Gandhi and Nikita Kamraj and Erin Kara and Kristin Madsen and Jon M. Miller and Michael Nowak and Michael L. Parker and Christopher Reynolds and James Steiner and Daniel Stern and Corbin Taylor and John Tomsick and Dominic Walton and Jörn Wilms and Abderahmen Zoghbi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.07130},
year = {2019}
}
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Astro 2020 Decadal science White Paper