Thin Accretion Disks
The chapter reviews the Novikov-Thorne model, which is the standard framework for geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disks around black holes, pointing out its assumptions. It also describes the transfer function for thin accretion disks and
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Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity
Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity
Cosimo Bambi
Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity
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Cosimo Bambi Department of Physics Fudan University Shanghai China and
Theoretical Astrophysics Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen Tübingen Germany
ISBN 978-981-10-4523-3 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4524-0
ISBN 978-981-10-4524-0
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong. —Richard Feynman
Preface
Black holes are thought to be the final product of the complete gravitational collapse of massive bodies. In the framework of standard physics, the spacetime metric around astrophysical black holes should be well approximated by the Kerr solution. However, macroscopic deviations from standard predictions may be expected from a number of scenarios beyond Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Astrophysical black holes are thus an ideal laboratory for testing strong gravity. The main aim of this book is to discuss the electromagnetic techniques to study the strong gravity region around astrophysical black holes. For completeness, gravitational wave methods will be also reviewed, but only very briefly and without the necessary details to start working on the corresponding line of research. This book has not the ambition to be a complete manual on this research field. Hopefully, it may be a good starting point. The rea
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