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How Do The Relativistic Effects Effect the Appearance of a Clothed Black Hole?For an accretion disk around a black hole, the strong relativistic effects affect every aspect of the radiation from the disk, including the spectrum, the light-curve, and the image. If the disk is in high inclination angle (nearly edge-on), the image will be greatly distorted; the farther side of the disk will appear to bend toward the observer, photons from the other side of the disk can reach the observer (if they are not blocked by the disk) to form a ghost image. This work differs mainly from previous work by taking into account the temperature distribution of a standard thin disk model and investigating the expected images from different viewing angles and in different energy bands. The edge-blocking effect is also considered. Direct images of black hole systems may be obtained with future X-ray missions like MAXIM pathfinder.
Document ID
20040074197
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Zhang, Xiaoling
(Katholieke Univ. te Leuven Belgium)
Zhang, S. N.
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Feng, Yuxin
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Yao, Yangsen
(City Univ. of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
April 23, 2002
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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