Towards precision measurements of accreting black holes using X-ray reflection spectroscopy

C Bambi, LW Brenneman, T Dauser, JA Garcia… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Relativistic reflection features are commonly observed in the X-ray spectra of accreting black
holes. In the presence of high quality data and with the correct astrophysical model, X-ray …

Astrophysical black holes: A compact pedagogical review

C Bambi - Annalen der Physik, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Black holes are among the most extreme objects that can be found in the Universe and an
ideal laboratory for testing fundamental physics. Here, the basic properties of black holes as …

High Density Reflection Spectroscopy–II. The density of the inner black hole accretion disc in AGN

J Jiang, AC Fabian, T Dauser, L Gallo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a high density disc reflection spectral analysis of a sample of 17 Seyfert 1
galaxies to study the inner disc densities at different black hole mass scales and accretion …

The gas-to-extinction ratio and the gas distribution in the Galaxy

H Zhu, W Tian, A Li, M Zhang - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the relation between the optical extinction (AV) and the hydrogen column
density (NH) determined from X-ray observations of a large sample of Galactic sightlines …

The soft state of Cygnus X-1 observed with NuSTAR: a variable corona and a stable inner disk

DJ Walton, JA Tomsick, KK Madsen… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a multi-epoch hard X-ray analysis of Cygnus X-1 in its soft state based on four
observations with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Despite the basic …

High-density reflection spectroscopy: I. A case study of GX 339-4

J Jiang, AC Fabian, J Wang, DJ Walton… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a broad-band spectral analysis of the black hole binary GX 339-4 with NuSTAR
and Swift using high-density reflection model. The observations were taken when the source …

Testing general relativity with NuSTAR data of galactic black holes

A Tripathi, Y Zhang, AB Abdikamalov… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts that the spacetime metric around
astrophysical black holes is described by the Kerr solution. In this work, we employ state-of …

Living on a flare: relativistic reflection in V404 Cyg observed by NuSTAR during its summer 2015 outburst

DJ Walton, K Mooley, AL King, JA Tomsick… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present first results from a series of NuSTAR observations of the black hole X-ray binary
V404 Cyg obtained during its summer 2015 outburst, primarily focusing on observations …

Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis with GX 339–4 by a combined analysis of its thermal spectrum and reflection features

A Tripathi, AB Abdikamalov, D Ayzenberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze simultaneous observations with NuSTAR and Swift of the black hole binary GX
339–4 in which we clearly detect both a strong thermal component and prominent relativistic …

Proof of principle X-ray reflection mass measurement of the black hole in H1743− 322

E Nathan, A Ingram, JF Steiner, O König… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The black hole X-ray binary H1743− 322 lies in a region of the Galaxy with high extinction,
and therefore it has not been possible to make a dynamical mass measurement. In this …