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Spectro-polarimetric signatures of accretion disks in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei contain information about the masses and spins of their central black holes, as well as the geometry of matter close to the compact objects.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Vladislav Loktev , Alexandra Veledina , Juri Poutanen , Joonas Nättilä , Valery F. Suleimanov

Recent general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion onto black holes have shown that, contrary to the basic assumptions of the Novikov-Thorne model, there can be substantial magnetic stress throughout the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , Jeremy D. Schnittman , John F. Hawley

Rotating regular black hole, as a promising extension beyond general relativity, offer a phenomenological model that resolves spacetime singularities. In this study, we investigate the observational features of thin accretion disk around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Zhen Li

We calculate the atmospheric structure of an accretion disk around a Kerr black hole and obtain its X-ray spectrum, which exhibits prominent atomic transitions under certain circumstances. The gravitational and Doppler (red)shifts of the C…

Recently a short scale modified black hole metric, known as holographic metric, has been proposed in order to capture the self-complete character of gravity. In this paper we show that such a metric can reproduce some geometric features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-23 Antonia M. Frassino , Sven Köppel , Piero Nicolini

X-ray reflection spectroscopy (or iron line method) is a powerful tool to probe the strong gravity region of black holes, and currently is the only technique for measuring the spin of the supermassive ones. While all the available…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Shafqat Riaz , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Sourabh Nampalliwar

We compute the canonical (brick-wall) entropy of Hawking radiation in a in a quantum black hole model whose strong-field exterior is modeled phenomenologically, to first order in a small quadrupole parameter, by the static q-metric, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 Shokoufe Faraji , Niayesh Afshordi

A thin viscous accretion disc around a Kerr black hole, which is warped due to the Lense-Thirring (LT) effect, was shown to cause the spin axis of the black hole to precess and align with the outer disc. We calculate the total LT torque…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 Srimanta Banerjee , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

Relativistic reflection features in the X-ray spectra of black hole binaries and AGNs originate from illumination of the inner part of the accretion disk by a hot corona. In the presence of high quality data and with the correct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-28 Ashutosh Tripathi , Honghui Liu , Cosimo Bambi

Current astrophysical research suggests that the most persistently luminous objects in the Universe are powered by the flow of matter through accretion disks onto black holes. Accretion disk systems are observed to emit copious radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Duane A. Liedahl , Diego F. Torres

The Kerr-Newman metric describes a very special rotating, charged mass and is the most general of the asymptotically flat stationary 'black hole' solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of general relativity. We review the derivation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Tim Adamo , E. T. Newman

The aperiodic variability ubiquitously observed from accreting black hole X-ray binary systems is generally analysed within the framework of the so-called ``theory of propagating fluctuations''. In this paper we derive the Fourier…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Andrew Mummery

Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory is an interesting theory of gravity for studying scalar fields in the context of no-hair theorem. In this work, we consider static charged dilaton and charged, slowly rotating dilaton black holes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohaddese Heydari-fard , Malihe Heydari-Fard , Hamid Reza Sepangi

The thermodynamics of a magnetised Kerr-Newman black hole is studied to all orders in the appended magnetic field $B$. The asymptotic properties of the metric and other fields are dominated by the magnetic flux that extends to infinity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 G. W. Gibbons , Yi Pang , C. N. Pope

We describe a method for the determination of black-hole masses based on information inferred from high-energy spectra. It is required that the spectral energy distribution consist of thermal and Comptonized components. One can then, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Shrader , Lev Titarchuk

The 2023/24 NICER monitoring campaign of the 7 Crab bright black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 covered the outburst in almost all accretion states. High-quality data are available in the high-Eddington-fraction hard-intermediate…

We have analysed four ASCA observations (1994--1995, 1996--1997) and three XMM-Newton observations (2005) of this source, in all of which the source is in high/soft state. We modeled the continuum spectra with relativistic disk model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Ling Zhang , Shuang Nan Zhang , Gloria Sala , Jochen Greiner , Yuxin Feng , Yangsen Yao

We present the results obtained from the spectral and temporal study of thermonuclear bursts from the millisecond X-ray pulsar SRGA J144459.2-604207 detected with NICER. The dynamic evolution of the spectral parameters in a broad energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Manoj Mandal , Sachindra Naik , Birendra Chhotaray

Using the quantum statistical method, the difficulty of solving the wave equation on the background of the black hole is avoided.We directly solve the partition functions of Bose and Fermi field on the background of an axisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-01 Zhao Ren , Zhang Li-Chun , Li Huai-Fan , Wu Yue-Qin

We investigate the use of relativistically blurred photoionized disc models on an XMM-Newton observation of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy PG 1404+226. The model is designed to reproduce the radiation from the inner accretion disc around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 J. Crummy , A. C. Fabian , W. N. Brandt , Th. Boller