Publications (5)
STROBE-X: X-ray Timing and Spectroscopy on Dynamical Timescales from Microseconds to Years
Paul S. Ray, Zaven Arzoumanian, David Ballantyne +155
We present the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X), a probe-class mission concept selected for study by NASA. It combines huge collectin…
The Mass Profile of the Milky Way to the Virial Radius from the Illustris Simulation
Corbin Taylor, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Paul Torrey +2
We use particle data from the Illustris simulation, combined with individual kinematic constraints on the mass of the Milky Way (MW) at specific distances from the Galactic center,…
Probing the Black Hole Engine with Measurements of the Relativistic X-ray Reflection Component
Javier A. GarcÃa, Matteo Bachetti, David R. Ballantyne +21
Over the last decades X-ray spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful tool for the estimation of black hole spin and several other key parameters in dozens of AGN and black hole X-r…
Exploring The Effects Of Disk Thickness On The Black Hole Reflection Spectrum
Corbin Taylor, Christopher S. Reynolds
The relativistically-broadened reflection spectrum, observed in both AGN and X-ray binaries, has proven to be a powerful probe of the properties of black holes and the environments…
X-Ray Reverberation From Black Hole Accretion Disks with Realistic Geometric Thickness
Corbin Taylor, Christopher S. Reynolds
X-ray reverberation in AGN, believed to be the result of the reprocessing of corona photons by the underlying accretion disk, has allowed us to probe the properties of the inner-mo…