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Broad emission lines for a negatively spinning black hole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2011

T. Dauser
Affiliation:
Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory and ECAP, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049 Bamberg, Germany email: thomas.dauser@sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de
J. Wilms
Affiliation:
Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory and ECAP, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049 Bamberg, Germany email: thomas.dauser@sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de
C. S. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Maryland Astronomy Center for Theory and Computation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
L. W. Brenneman
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian C. for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Abstract

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We present an extended scheme for the calculation of the profiles of emission lines from accretion disks around rotating black holes. The scheme includes disks with angular momenta which are parallel and antiparallel with respect to the black hole's angular momentum, as both configurations are assumed to be stable (King et al. 2005). Based on a Green's function approach, an arbitrary radius dependence of the disk emissivity and arbitrary limb darkening laws can be easily taken into account, while the amount of precomputed data is significantly reduced with respect to other available models. We discuss line shapes for such disks and present a code for modelling observational data with this scheme in X-ray data analysis programs. A detailed discussion will soon be presented in a forthcoming paper (Dauser et al. 2010).

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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