Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei
Abstract
The Fe Kα lines seen in many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to originate close to the central supermassive black hole. In this review we summarize the physics of the fluorescent line formation and show that Fe Kα line profile observations can be used to probe relativistic effects in the vicinity of the black hole, concentrating on recent results from XMM-Newton.
- Publication:
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Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement
- Pub Date:
- December 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1009-9271/3/S1/157
- Bibcode:
- 2003ChJAS...3..157W
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion physics;
- black hole physics