Measuring black hole spin by the continuum-fitting method: Effect of deviations from the Novikov-Thorne disc model

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 414, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1183-1194

  Kulkarni, Akshay K ^a   Penna, Robert F ^a   Shcherbakov, Roman V ^a   Steiner, James F ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Sadowski, Aleksander ^b   Zhu, Yucong ^a   Mcclintock, Jeffrey E ^a   Davis, Shane W ^c   Mckinney, Jonathan C ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Methods: numerical; MHD; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; ERRORS; GRAVITATION; LUMINANCE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; DISK MODEL; FITTING METHOD; HOLE SPIN; METHOD: NUMERICAL; RELATIVISTIC MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; THIN DISK; X-RAYS: BINARIES;

STARS;

EID: 79958086582     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18446.x     Document Type: Article

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