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Effects of Kerr Spacetime on Spectral Features from X-Ray Illuminated Accretion Discs
We performed detailed calculations of the relativistic effects acting on both
the reflection continuum and the iron line from accretion discs around rotating
black holes. Fully relativistic transfer of both illuminating and reprocessed
photons has been considered in Kerr spacetime. We calculated overall spectra,
line profiles and integral quantities, and present their dependences on the
black hole angular momentum.
We show that the observed EW of the lines is substantially enlarged when the
black hole rotates rapidly and/or the source of illumination is near above the
hole. Therefore, such calculations provide a way to distinguish among different
models of the central source.Comment: 9 pages, latex, 13 figures, 3 Tables; accepted for publication in
MNRA