Relativistic reverberation in the accretion flow of a tidal disruption event

Erin Kara (), Jon M. Miller, Chris Reynolds and Lixin Dai
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Erin Kara: University of Maryland
Jon M. Miller: University of Michigan
Chris Reynolds: University of Maryland
Lixin Dai: Joint Space Science Institute, University of Maryland

Nature, 2016, vol. 535, issue 7612, 388-390

Abstract: Observations of reverberation arising from gravitationally redshifted iron Kα photons reflected off the inner accretion flow in a tidal disruption event demonstrate that X-rays originate from a region very close to the central black hole and not from a relativistic jet, as previously thought.

Date: 2016
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