4 papers
Probing the Black Hole Engine with Measurements of the Relativistic X-ray Reflection Component
Javier A. García, 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…
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…
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…
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,…