The evolution of black hole states
Astrophysics
2011-09-29 v2
Abstract
We discuss the evolution of black hole transients on the basis of a few systems that were intensively observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We focus on the global evolution and the observed state transitions. Rather than giving a numerical recipe for classifying observations, we try to identify times during outbursts at which clear changes occur in the X-ray variability, X-ray spectral, or multi-wavelength properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0412597,
title = {The evolution of black hole states},
author = {Jeroen Homan and Tomaso Belloni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0412597},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
13 pages, to appear in From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Hole Accretion on All Mass Scales, ed. T. J. Maccarone, R. P. Fender, L. C. Ho (Dordrecht: Kluwer). Added some references and made some changes to the introduction