Probing strong gravity and extreme astrophysics around black holes with Constellation-X

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.1601r&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #16.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1178

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Some black hole systems display a relativistically broadened iron emission line in their spectrum, presumably due to fluorescence in the surface layers of the inner regions of the accretion disk. Constellation-X will allow us to observe variability in this line due to the orbital motions of inhomogenieties in the disk as well as reverberation effects (i.e., the light echo of short/intense flares across the accretion disk). We will show how these phenomena can be used as a quantitative probe of black hole mass, spin and (possibly) the validity of General Relativity.

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