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We consider thin accretion disks in the field of a class of rotating regular black holes. For this purpose, we obtain the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit, $r_{ISCO}$ and efficiency of accretion disk in converting matter into…

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We examine in detail several aspects of the physics of accretion disks of possible relevance to the outburst mechanism of the black hole X-ray transients. We adopt the one dimensional, time dependent model described in detail by Cannizzo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John K. Cannizzo

An intrinsically narrow line emitted by an accretion disk around a black hole appears broadened and skewed as a result of the Doppler effect and gravitational redshift. The fluorescent iron line in the X-ray band at 6.4-6.9keV is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. C. Fabian , K. Iwasawa , C. S. Reynolds , A. J. Young

Observations of several gravitationally microlensed quasars in X-rays revealed variations in the profile of the iron K$\alpha$ line in the course of microlensing events. We explore the effect by simulating a microlensing caustic crossing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-25 Lukas Ledvina , David Heyrovsky , Michal Dovciak

We predict polarimetric line profiles for scattering off rotating disks using a Monte Carlo technique. We have discovered that there is a marked difference between scattering of line emission by a disk that reaches the stellar surface, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jorick S. Vink , Tim J. Harries , Janet E. Drew

In this paper,We present a simple relativistic approach to analyze the flux striking the disk which is possibly from a source up the Black hole.The X-ray source is locate above an accretion disc orbiting around the black hole,this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huang Wei

In this paper, we study the physical properties and the equilibrium thermal radiation emission characteristics of matter forming thin accretion disks in stationary axially symmetric wormhole spacetimes. The thin disk models are constructed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-02 Tiberiu Harko , Zoltán Kovács , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We study the effects of emission geometry on the capability to constrain black hole parameters from measurements of the shadow and inner-shadow of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We investigate the capability to constrain mass, charge,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Julien A. Kearns , Dominic O. Chang , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Shane W. Davis

The clumpy disc, or inhomogeneous accretion flow, has been proposed to explain the properties of accreting black hole systems. However, the observational evidences remain to be explored. In this work, we calculate the profiles of Fe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Xiao-Di Yu , Ren-Yi Ma , Ya-Ping Li , Hui Zhang , Tao-Tao Fang

In this study, we explore the properties of a non-rotating black hole in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) theory and investigate the luminosity of the accretion disk surrounding it. We determine all the orbital parameters of particles in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Mirzabek Alloqulov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Abdul Jawad

General Relativity effects (gravitational redshift, light bending, ...) strongly modify the characteristics of the lines emitted close to the Black Hole in Active Galactic Nuclei and Galactic Black Hole systems. These effects are reviewed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Giorgio Matt

We present numerical spectral and vertical structure calculations appropriate for near-Eddington-luminosity, radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes. We cover a wide range of black hole spins and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Theodore Dezen , Bryan Flores

Strong broad emission lines are the most important signatures of active galactic nuclei. These lines allowed to discover the cosmological nature of quasars, and at present these lines allow for convenient method of weighting the black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Czerny , K. Hryniewicz

Radiation pressure-dominated accretion disks are predicted to exhibit strong density inhomogeneities on scales much smaller than the disk scale height, due to the nonlinear development of photon bubble instability. Radiation would escape…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mitchell C. Begelman

Double peaked broad emission lines in active galactic nuclei are generally considered to be formed in an accretion disc. In this paper, we compute the profiles of reprocessing emission lines from a relativistic, warped accretion disc around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng-Miao Wu , Ting-Gui Wang , Xiao-Bo Dong

Light orbiting an accreting black hole may impact the disk or jet multiple times before escaping to the observer, at a variety of angles with respect to the local magnetic field. In this letter, we characterize the imprints of these long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , George N. Wong , Angelo Ricarte

The relativistically-broadened reflection spectrum, observed in both AGN and X-ray binaries, has proven to be a powerful probe of the properties of black holes and the environments in which they reside. Being emitted from the inner-most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Corbin Taylor , Christopher S. Reynolds

We calculate the iron line profiles from accretion discs with spiral velocity structures around Schwarzschild black holes. We find that quasi-periodic bumps appear in the the profiles, thereby providing a test for spiral wave patterns. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean A. Hartnoll , Eric G. Blackman

We performed detailed calculations of the relativistic effects acting on both the reflection continuum and the iron line from accretion discs around rotating black holes. Fully relativistic transfer of both illuminating and reprocessed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Martocchia , V. Karas , G. Matt

Cyclotron resonance scattering features observed in the spectra of some X-ray pulsars show significant changes of the line energy with the pulsar luminosity. At high luminosities, these variations are often associated with the onset and…