A short review of relativistic iron lines from stellar-mass black holes

DOI10.1002/ASNA.200610680zbMATH Open1107.85300arXivastro-ph/0609447OpenAlexW3100678513WikidataQ68427611 ScholiaQ68427611MaRDI QIDQ3418110FDOQ3418110

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Publication date: 2 February 2007

Published in: Astronomische Nachrichten: A Journal on all Fields of Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this contribution, I briefly review recent progress in detecting and measuring the properties of relativistic iron lines observed in stellar-mass black hole systems, and the aspects of these lines that are most relevant to studies of similar lines in Seyfert-1 AGN. In particular, the lines observed in stellar-mass black holes are not complicated by complex low-energy absorption or partial-covering of the central engine, and strong lines are largely independent of the model used to fit the underlying broad-band continuum flux. Indeed, relativistic iron lines are the most robust diagnostic of black hole spin that is presently available to observers, with specific advantages over the systematics-plagued disk continuum. If accretion onto stellar-mass black holes simply scales with mass, then the widespread nature of lines in stellar-mass black holes may indicate that lines should be common in Seyfert-1 AGN, though perhaps harder to detect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609447

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zbMATH Keywords

X-rays: binaries accretion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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