A short review of relativistic iron lines from stellar-mass black holes
dc.contributor.author | Miller, J. M. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-09-20T17:50:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-01-03T16:21:13Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2006-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Miller, J. M. (2006). "A short review of relativistic iron lines from stellar-mass black holes." Astronomische Nachrichten 327(10): 997-1003. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55862> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-6337 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1521-3994 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55862 | |
dc.description.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. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | WILEY-VCH Verlag | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Physics | en_US |
dc.title | A short review of relativistic iron lines from stellar-mass black holes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Astronomy | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Department of Astrophysics, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1042 USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55862/1/997_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.200610680 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Astronomische Nachrichten | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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