Self-consistent Black Hole Accretion Spectral Models and the Forgotten Role of Coronal Comptonization of Reflection Emission

Continuum and reflection spectral models have each been widely employed in measuring the spins of accreting black holes. However, the two approaches have not been implemented together in a photon-conserving, self-consistent framework. We develop such a framework using the black hole X-ray binary GX...

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Main Authors: García, Javier A. (Author), Eikmann, Wiebke (Author), McClintock, Jeffrey E. (Author), Brenneman, Laura W. (Author), Dauser, Thomas (Author), Fabian, Andrew C. (Author), Steiner, James F (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2017-06-08T14:03:47Z.
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