Relativistic Disc lines
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2014-05-19 v1
Abstract
Broad emission lines, particularly broad iron-K lines, are now commonly seen in the X-ray spectra of luminous AGN and Galactic black hole binaries. Sensitive NuSTAR spectra over the energy range of 3-78 keV and high frequency reverberation spectra now confirm that these are relativistic disc lines produced by coronal irradiation of the innermost accretion flow around rapidly spinning black holes. General relativistic effects are essential in explaining the observations. Recent results are briefly reviewed here.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.4150,
title = {Relativistic Disc lines},
author = {A. C. Fabian and E. Kara and M. L. Parker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4150},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8, pages, 8 Figures, Suzaku-Maxi conference 2014