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"Accretion onto black holes: is the relativistic Fe K alpha line ubiquitous?"

Dr. Maria Caballero Garcia
University of Crete, Greece
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When: Wednesday, 8th of December of 2010 at 2:00 pm
Where: 2nd Floor Seminar Room

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Abstract:  

In this talk I pretend to give a review of accretion onto black holes in
different mass scales (black hole binaries, active galactic nuclei and
ultra-luminous X-ray sources). A relativistic Fe K alpha line is present in 
the spectra of the most relevant sources from each class, i.e. in the black 
hole binary GX 339-4, in the Seyfert-1 galaxy 1H0707-495 and in a sample of 
the best ULX data from XMM-Newton. I will discuss implications from these 
results in the framework of the different models available. Eventually, 
results from the bright ULX M82 X-1 (Caballero-Garcia, Reis and Fabian, 2010,
submitted) will be shown.