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Line Profiles Radiated by Orbiting Matter Around Black Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Østgaard
Affiliation:
Physics Institute, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Trondheim, 7055 Dragvoll, Norway
G. Bao
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
P. Hadrava
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Abstract

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Emission-line profiles from both narrow eccentric rings and an extended disk around a black hole are presented. In both cases, a black-hole signature appears when the inclination of the emitting orbit is larger than 80°.

Type
III. Broad-Line Profiles and Variability
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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