Black Hole Spin via Continuum Fitting and the Role of Spin in Powering Transient Jets

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2014, Pages 295-322

  McClintock, Jeffrey E ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Steiner, James F ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion disks; Black hole physics; Stars: Winds, outflows; X Ray binaries

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION;

ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; CIRCULAR ORBIT; CONTINUUM SPECTRA; FIT PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENTS OF; STARS: WINDS , OUTFLOWS; X RAY BINARIES;

STARS;

EID: 84920256270     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-013-0003-9     Document Type: Review

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