Towards Precision Measurements of Accreting Black Holes Using X-Ray Reflection Spectroscopy

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作者
Bambi, Cosimo [1 ,2 ]
Brenneman, Laura W. [3 ]
Dauser, Thomas [4 ,5 ]
Garcia, Javier A. [4 ,5 ,6 ]
Grinberg, Victoria [7 ]
Ingram, Adam [8 ]
Jiang, Jiachen [9 ]
Liu, Honghui [1 ,2 ]
Lohfink, Anne M. [10 ]
Marinucci, Andrea [11 ]
Mastroserio, Guglielmo [6 ]
Middei, Riccardo [12 ,13 ]
Nampalliwar, Sourabh [7 ]
Niedzwiecki, Andrzej [14 ]
Steiner, James F. [3 ]
Tripathi, Ashutosh [1 ,2 ]
Zdziarski, Andrzej A. [15 ]
机构
[1] Fudan Univ, Ctr Field Theory & Particle Phys, Shanghai 200438, Peoples R China
[2] Fudan Univ, Dept Phys, Shanghai 200438, Peoples R China
[3] Harvard & Smithsonian, Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[4] Dr Karl Remeis Observ, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany
[5] Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany
[6] CALTECH, Cahill Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Eberhard Karls Univ Tubingen, Inst Astron & Astrophys IAAT, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany
[8] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[9] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Astron, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[10] Montana State Univ, Dept Phys, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[11] ASI Unita Ric Sci, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[12] INAF, Osservatorio Astron Roma, I-00078 Rome, Italy
[13] Space Sci Data Ctr ASI, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[14] Univ Lodz, Fac Phys & Appl Informat, PL-90236 Lodz, Poland
[15] Polish Acad Sci, Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Black holes; X-ray astronomy; Reflection spectrum; Iron line; Black hole spins; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; ADVECTION-DOMINATED ACCRETION; SPECTRAL-TIMING PROPERTIES; BROAD IRON LINE; XMM-NEWTON DATA; K-ALPHA LINE; CYGNUS X-1; RELATIVISTIC REFLECTION; HARD STATE; TIME-LAGS;
D O I
10.1007/s11214-021-00841-8
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Relativistic reflection features are commonly observed in the X-ray spectra of accreting black holes. In the presence of high quality data and with the correct astrophysical model, X-ray reflection spectroscopy can be quite a powerful tool to probe the strong gravity region, study the morphology of the accreting matter, measure black hole spins, and possibly test Einstein's theory of general relativity in the strong field regime. In the last decade, there has been significant progress in the development of the analysis of these features, thanks to more sophisticated astrophysical models and new observational facilities. Here we review the state-of-the-art in relativistic reflection modeling, listing assumptions and simplifications that may affect, at some level, the final measurements and may be investigated better in the future. We review black hole spin measurements and the most recent efforts to use X-ray reflection spectroscopy for testing fundamental physics.
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