{
  "id": "1405.6575",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2014-05-26T13:56:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-08-02T16:54:52.000Z",
  "title": "X-ray reverberation around accreting black holes",
  "authors": [
    "P. Uttley",
    "E. M. Cackett",
    "A. C. Fabian",
    "E. Kara",
    "D. R. Wilkins"
  ],
  "comment": "72 pages, 32 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. Corrected for mostly minor typos, but in particular errors are corrected in the denominators of the covariance and rms spectrum error equations (Eqn. 14 and 15)",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "astro-ph.GA",
    "astro-ph.IM"
  ],
  "abstract": "Luminous accreting stellar mass and supermassive black holes produce power-law continuum X-ray emission from a compact central corona. Reverberation time lags occur due to light travel time-delays between changes in the direct coronal emission and corresponding variations in its reflection from the accretion flow. Reverberation is detectable using light curves made in different X-ray energy bands, since the direct and reflected components have different spectral shapes. Larger, lower frequency, lags are also seen and are identified with propagation of fluctuations through the accretion flow and associated corona. We review the evidence for X-ray reverberation in active galactic nuclei and black hole X-ray binaries, showing how it can be best measured and how it may be modelled. The timescales and energy-dependence of the high frequency reverberation lags show that much of the signal is originating from very close to the black hole in some objects, within a few gravitational radii of the event horizon. We consider how these signals can be studied in the future to carry out X-ray reverberation mapping of the regions closest to black holes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-08-02T16:54:52.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "x-ray reverberation",
      "accreting black holes",
      "holes produce power-law continuum x-ray",
      "produce power-law continuum x-ray emission",
      "black holes produce power-law continuum"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1007/s00159-014-0072-0",
      "journal": "Astronomy and Astrophysics Review",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Aug",
      "volume": 22,
      "pages": 72
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 72,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1297997,
      "adsabs": "2014A&ARv..22...72U"
    }
  }
}