Spin Measurements of Accreting Black Holes: A Foundation for X-Ray Continuum Fitting
Remarkably, an astrophysical black hole has only two attributes: its mass and its spin angular momentum. Spin is often associated with the exotic behavior that black holes manifest such as the production of relativistic and energetic jets. In this thesis, we advance one of the two primary methods of...
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Harvard University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10058 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10121970 |