Energy-dependent polarization variability as a black hole signature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-15

  Bao, Gang ^a   Wiita, Paul J ^a   Hadrava, Petr ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004938166     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.12     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. C. M. Urry and P. Padovani, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 107, 803 (1995). PASPAU
2. Gopal-Krishna, K., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 11 399 (1995). PNASA6
3. R. A. Remillard, J. E. McClintock, and C. D. Bailyn, Astrophys. J. 399, L145 (1992). ASJOAB
4. J. Kormendy and D. Richstone, Astrophys. J. 393, 559 (1992). ASJOAB
5. M. Miyoshi, J. Moran, J. Herrnstein, L. Greenhill, N. Nakai, P. Diamond, and M. Inoue, Nature (London) 373, 127 (1995). NATUAS
6. B. Carter, in Black Holes, C. DeWitt and B. S. DeWitt (Gordon and Breach, New York, 1973), p. 57.
7. M. Oda, H. Gorenstein, E. Gursky, E. Kellogg, E. Schreier, H. Tananbaum, and R. Giacconi, Astrophys. J. 166, L1 (1971). ASJOAB
8. A. Lawrence, W. G. Watson, K. A. Pounds, and M. Elvis, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 217, 685 (1985). MNRAA4
9. K. Makishima, in Physics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes, Y. Tanaka (Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 1988), p. 175.
10. J. E. Pringle, M. J. Rees, and A. G. Pacholczyk, Astron. Astrophys. 29, 179 (1973). AAEJAF
11. A. P. Lightman and D. M. Eardley, Astrophys. J. 187, L1 (1974). ASJOAB
12. M. J. Rees, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 171, 457 (1975). MNRAA4
13. G. Bao, Astron. Astrophys. 257, 594 (1992). AAEJAF
14. G. Bao, P. Hadrava, and E. Østgaard, Astrophys. J. 425, 63 (1994). ASJOAB
15. S. Chandrasekhar, Radiative Transfer (Dover, New York, 1960).
16. M. A. Abramowicz, G. Bao, A. Lanza, and X.-H. Zhang, Astron. Astrophys. 245, 454 (1991)
17. G. Bao and M. A. Abramowicz, Astrophys. J. 465, 646 (1996). ASJOAB
18. A. V. Mangalam and P. J. Wiita, Astrophys. J. 406, 420 (1993)
19. S. K. Chakrabarti and P. J. Wiita, Astrophys. J. 411, 602 (1993). ASJOAB
20. I. D. Novikov and K. S. Thorne, Black Holes, C. DeWitt and B. S. DeWitt (Gordon and Breach, New York, 1973), p. 343.
21. R. F. Stark and P. A. Connors, Nature (London) 266, 429 (1977). NATUAS
22. S. Pineault, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 179, 691 (1977). MNRAA4
23. C. T. Cunningham and J. M. Bardeen, Astrophys. J. 183, 237 (1973). ASJOAB