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astro-ph.HE2020

Testing General Relativity with NuSTAR data of Galactic Black Holes

Ashutosh Tripathi, Yuexin Zhang, Askar B. Abdikamalov +5

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-the-…

astro-ph.HE2020

Reflection spectra of accretion disks illuminated by disk-like coronae

Shafqat Riaz, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg +3

Relativistic reflection features in the X-ray spectra of black hole binaries and AGNs are thought to be produced through illumination of a cold accretion disk by a hot corona. In t…

astro-ph.HE2020

Testing the Kerr Black Hole Hypothesis with GX 339-4 by a combined analysis of its thermal spectrum and reflection features

Ashutosh Tripathi, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg +3

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 r…

astro-ph.HE2020

Testing the Keplerian disk hypothesis using X-ray reflection spectroscopy

Ashutosh Tripathi, Biao Zhou, Askar B. Abdikamalov +3

The Novikov-Thorne model is the standard framework for the description of geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disks around black holes and is widely used to study the…

astro-ph.HE2020

Shining X-rays on asymptotically safe quantum gravity

Biao Zhou, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg +3

Asymptotically safe quantum gravity is a promising candidate scenario to provide a UV extension for the effective quantum field theory of Einstein's gravity. The theory has its fou…

gr-qc2020★ 24 cited

X-ray reflection spectroscopy with Kaluza-Klein black holes

Jiachen Zhu, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg +6

Kaluza-Klein theory is a popular alternative theory of gravity, with both non-rotating and rotating black hole solutions known. This allows for the possibility that the theory coul…