Probing the Black Hole Engine with Measurements of the Relativistic X-ray Reflection Component

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.07130
• Publication Date: 2019-01-01
• Authors: Javier A. García; Matteo Bachetti; D. R. Ballantyne; Laura Brenneman; Murray Brightman; Riley Connors; Thomas Dauser; A. C. Fabian; F. Fuerst; P. Gandhi; Nikita Kamraj; Erin Kara; Kristin K. Madsen; J. M. Mïller; Michael A. Nowak; M. L. Parker; C. S. Reynolds; James F. Steiner; Daniel Stern; Corbin Taylor; John A. Tomsick; D. J. Walton; J. Wilms; Abderahmen Zoghbi
• Keywords: Component (thermodynamics); Reflection; Black hole (networking)

Over the last decades X-ray spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful tool for estimation of black hole spin and several other key parameters in dozens AGN binaries. In this White Paper, we discuss observational theoretical challenges expected exploration, discovery, study astrophysical holes next decade. We focus on case accreting their electromagnetic signatures, with particular emphasis measurement relativistic reflection component spectra.