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About the accuracy of the relxill/relxill_nk models in view of the next generation of X-ray missions
Honghui Liu, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Temurbek Mirzaev +4
X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study the strong gravity region of black holes. The next generation of astrophysical X-ray missions promises to provide unpreced…
Modeling reflection spectra of super-Eddington X-ray sources
Swarnim Shashank, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Honghui Liu +5
Relativistic reflection is a common feature in the X-ray observations of accreting compact objects. We present reflux, a new X-ray reflection model for spectral analysis of super-E…
X-ray spectra of black hole X-ray binaries with returning radiation
Temurbek Mirzaev, Cosimo Bambi, Askar B. Abdikamalov +4
In the disk-corona model, the X-ray spectrum of a stellar-mass black hole in an X-ray binary is characterized by three components: a thermal component from a thin and cold accretio…
Testing General Relativity with NuSTAR data of Galactic Black Holes : II
Ashutosh Tripathi, Swarnim Shashank, Gitika Mall +1
General relativity predicts the spacetime metric around an astrophysical black hole to be described by the Kerr solution, which is a massive rotating black hole without any residua…
Towards more accurate synthetic reflection spectra: improving the calculations of returning radiation
Temurbek Mirzaev, Shafqat Riaz, Askar B. Abdikamalov +6
We present a new model to calculate reflection spectra of thin accretion disks in Kerr spacetimes. Our model includes the effect of returning radiation, which is the radiation that…