Constraining Black Hole Spin in Sy 1 AGN with Suzaku

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21343706b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #437.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.310

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Relativistically broad iron lines in AGN act as a powerful diagnostic probe of the inner accretion flow onto supermassive black holes, allowing observers to test the predictions of General Relativity in the strong-field limit. The extent of the broadening seen in the red wing of the Fe-K line, in particular, enables us to place a lower limit on black hole spin in a given source. X-ray instruments with large collecting areas and broad bandpasses such as Suzaku are now allowing us to obtain high-resolution spectra of the Fe-K line region in many AGN. I present black hole spin constraints from a Suzaku archival survey of several AGN with broad iron lines. Black hole spin constraints are derived from spectral fitting using the kerrconv model (Brenneman & Reynolds 2006) applied to the ionized accretion disk reflection spectrum of Ross & Fabian (2005).

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