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2019ApJ...874..135T - Astrophys. J., 874, 135-135 (2019/April-1)

Constraints on the spacetime metric around seven "bare" AGNs using X-ray reflection spectroscopy.

TRIPATHI A., YAN J., YANG Y., YAN Y., GARNHAM M., YAO Y., LI S., DING Z., ABDIKAMALOV A.B., AYZENBERG D., BAMBI C., DAUSER T., GARCIA J.A., JIANG J. and NAMPALLIWAR S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the study of a sample of seven "bare" active galactic nuclei observed with Suzaku. We interpret the spectrum of these sources with a relativistic reflection component and we employ our model RELXILL_NK to test the Kerr nature of their supermassive black holes. We constrain the Johannsen deformation parameters α13 and α22, in which the Kerr metric is recovered when α13 = α22 = 0. All our measurements are consistent with the hypothesis that the spacetime geometry around these supermassive objects is described by the Kerr solution. For some sources, we obtain quite strong constraints on α13 and α22 when compared to those found in our previous studies. We discuss the systematic uncertainties in our tests and the implications of our results.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion disks - black hole physics - gravitation

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