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Iron Kα line intensity from accretion discs around rotating black holes

A. Martocchia1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi ‘Roma Tre’, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, ItalyG. Matt1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi ‘Roma Tre’, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, Italy
1996en
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Abstract

We calculate the iron fluorescent Kα line intensity from an accretion disc orbiting around a maximally rotating black hole and illuminated by an X-ray source located on the hole rotation axis.

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