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2005PASJ...57..827W - Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 57, 827-833 (2005/October-0)

Eclipsing light-curve asymmetry for black-hole accretion flows.

WATARAI K.-Y., TAKAHASHI R. and FUKUE J.

Abstract (from CDS):

begin{HTML} We propose an eclipsing light-curve diagnosis for black-hole accretion flows. When emission from an inner accretion disk around a black hole is occulted by a companion star, the observed light curve becomes asymmetric at ingress and egress on a time scale of 0.1-1seconds. This light-curve analysis provides a means of verifying the relativistic properties of the accretion flow, based on the special/general relativistic effects of black holes. The ``skewness'' for the eclipsing light curve of a thin disk is ∼0.08, whereas that of a slim disk is ∼ 0, since the innermost part is self-occulted by the disk's outer rim.

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Journal keyword(s): accretion: accretion disks - black holes - stars: X-rays

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