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The relativistic Iron K-alpha line from an accretion disc onto a static non-baryonic compact object

Astrophysics 2011-05-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

This paper continues the study of the properties of an accretion disc rotating around a non-baryonic (assumed super-massive) compact object. This kind of objects, generically known as boson stars, were earlier proposed as a possible alternative scenario to the existence of super-masive black holes in the center of every galaxy. A dilute boson star has also been proposed as a large part of the non-baryonic dark matter, flattening galactic rotational velocities curves. In this contribution, we compute the profile of the emission lines of Iron; its shape has been for long known as a useful diagnosis of the space-time geometry. We compare with the case of a Schwarzschild black hole, concluding that the differences are observationally distinguishable.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205418,
  title  = {The relativistic Iron K-alpha line from an accretion disc onto a static non-baryonic compact object},
  author = {Youjun Lu and Diego F. Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205418},
  year   = {2011}
}

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14 pages, 7 figures