X-ray Spectrum of Super-Eddington Accretion Disk and Age of Supermassive Black Holes

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Effects of electron scattering (opacity and Comptonization) on the emergent X-ray spectrum from super-Eddington accretion flows (the so called slim disks) are examined. The model is applied to Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) to estimate their accretion rates. We found that a NLS1, PG 1448+273, has an extremely large accretion rate: about 1000 L-Edd / c**2. This implys that this object is really young: its inferred age (black-hole mass divided by the accretion rate) is 10**6 years.

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