scholarly journals Discovery of photon index saturation in the black hole binaries

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Titarchuk ◽  
Nickolai Shaposhnikov ◽  
Elena Seifina ◽  
Remo Ruffini ◽  
Gregory Vereshchagin
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Photon Index ◽  
Index Saturation

scholarly journals Effective-one-body waveforms from dynamical captures in black hole binaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Nagar ◽  
Piero Rettegno ◽  
Rossella Gamba ◽  
Sebastiano Bernuzzi
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Binaries

scholarly journals X-ray properties of reverberation-mapped AGNs with super-Eddington accreting massive black holes

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S356) ◽  
pp. 143-143
Author(s):  
Jaya Maithil ◽  
Michael S. Brotherton ◽  
Bin Luo ◽  
Ohad Shemmer ◽  
Sarah C. Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Accretion Rate ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Photon Index ◽  
The Impact

AbstractActive Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit multi-wavelength properties that are representative of the underlying physical processes taking place in the vicinity of the accreting supermassive black hole. The black hole mass and the accretion rate are fundamental for understanding the growth of black holes, their evolution, and the impact on the host galaxies. Recent results on reverberation-mapped AGNs show that the highest accretion rate objects have systematic shorter time-lags. These super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) show BLR size 3-8 times smaller than predicted by the Radius-Luminosity (R-L) relationship. Hence, the single-epoch virial black hole mass estimates of highly accreting AGNs have an overestimation of a factor of 3-8 times. SEAMBHs likely have a slim accretion disk rather than a thin disk that is diagnostic in X-ray. I will present the extreme X-ray properties of a sample of dozen of SEAMBHs. They indeed have a steep hard X-ray photon index, Γ, and demonstrate a steeper power-law slope, ασx.

scholarly journals Peculiar acceleration of stellar-origin black hole binaries: Measurement and biases with LISA

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Tamanini ◽  
Antoine Klein ◽  
Camille Bonvin ◽  
Enrico Barausse ◽  
Chiara Caprini
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Binaries

scholarly journals The TianQin project: Current progress on science and technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Mei ◽  
Yan-Zheng Bai ◽  
Jiahui Bao ◽  
Enrico Barausse ◽  
Lin Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Ecliptic Plane ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Massive Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Compact Binaries ◽  
Single Body ◽  
Science Operations ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Research Facilities

Abstract TianQin is a planned space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory consisting of three Earth-orbiting satellites with an orbital radius of about $10^5 \, {\rm km}$. The satellites will form an equilateral triangle constellation the plane of which is nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic plane. TianQin aims to detect GWs between $10^{-4} \, {\rm Hz}$ and $1 \, {\rm Hz}$ that can be generated by a wide variety of important astrophysical and cosmological sources, including the inspiral of Galactic ultra-compact binaries, the inspiral of stellar-mass black hole binaries, extreme mass ratio inspirals, the merger of massive black hole binaries, and possibly the energetic processes in the very early universe and exotic sources such as cosmic strings. In order to start science operations around 2035, a roadmap called the 0123 plan is being used to bring the key technologies of TianQin to maturity, supported by the construction of a series of research facilities on the ground. Two major projects of the 0123 plan are being carried out. In this process, the team has created a new-generation $17 \, {\rm cm}$ single-body hollow corner-cube retro-reflector which was launched with the QueQiao satellite on 21 May 2018; a new laser-ranging station equipped with a $1.2 \, {\rm m}$ telescope has been constructed and the station has successfully ranged to all five retro-reflectors on the Moon; and the TianQin-1 experimental satellite was launched on 20 December 2019—the first-round result shows that the satellite has exceeded all of its mission requirements.

scholarly journals FORMATION AND HARDENING OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARIES IN MINOR MERGERS OF DISK GALAXIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 756 (1) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazeel Mahmood Khan ◽  
Ingo Berentzen ◽  
Peter Berczik ◽  
Andreas Just ◽  
Lucio Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Disk Galaxies ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Minor Mergers
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