X-ray States of Black Hole Binaries in Outburst
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
A brief review is given for X-ray properties of black hole binary systems. Topics include the effort to re-define the three states of active accretion, potential applications for general relativity in the regime of strong gravity, and the properties of high-frequency QPOs in 7 systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504126,
title = {X-ray States of Black Hole Binaries in Outburst},
author = {R. A. Remillard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504126},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, in "Interacting Binaries: Accretion, Evolution and Outcomes", eds. L. A. Antonelli, et al., Procs. Interacting Binaries Meeting, Cefalu, Italy, June 2004, in press (AIP)