Observational properties of relativistic black hole winds
Abstract
We examine observational properties of relativistic black hole winds as an origin of high luminosity sources such as microquasars and ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). When strong relativistic wind/outflow happens in the vicinity of the black hole, the wind might form the optically-thick photosphere. Therefore the emission observed in ULXs might come from the photosphere of the wind, not from the accretion disk.
- Publication:
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Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses
- Pub Date:
- April 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392130700600X
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..238..471W
- Keywords:
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- Black hole physics;
- stars: winds;
- outflows;
- X-rays: binaries