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Testing black holes using X-ray reflection spectroscopy
Cosimo BambiFudan University
http://www.physics.fudan.edu.cn/tps/people/bambi/
HEP Remote Video Seminar Series @ IIT Hyderabad, 4 October 2018
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Contributors
Askar Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg, Zheng Cao,
Kishalay Choudhury, Thomas Dauser, Javier Garcia,
Jiachen Jiang, Honghui Liu, Sourabh Nampalliwar,
Ashutosh Tripathi, Jack Steiner, Jingy Wang, Yerong Xu
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Motivations
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Tests of general relativity
● 1915 → General relativity (Einstein)
● 1919 → Deflection of light by the Sun (Eddington)
● 1960s-present → Solar System experiments
● 1970s-present → Binary pulsars
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Tests of general relativity
● 1915 → General relativity (Einstein)
● 1919 → Deflection of light by the Sun (Eddington)
● 1960s-present → Solar System experiments
● 1970s-present → Binary pulsars
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Tests of general relativity
● 1915 → General relativity (Einstein)
● 1919 → Deflection of light by the Sun (Eddington)
● 1960s-present → Solar System experiments
● 1970s-present → Binary pulsars
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Tests of general relativity
● 1915 → General relativity (Einstein)
● 1919 → Deflection of light by the Sun (Eddington)
● 1960s-present → Solar System experiments
● 1970s-present → Binary pulsars
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Weak fields
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Tests of general relativity
● 1915 → General relativity (Einstein)
● 1919 → Deflection of light by the Sun (Eddington)
● 1960s-present → Solar System experiments
● 1970s-present → Binary pulsars
● Today → Black holes
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Weak fields
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Tests of general relativity
● 1915 → General relativity (Einstein)
● 1919 → Deflection of light by the Sun (Eddington)
● 1960s-present → Solar System experiments
● 1970s-present → Binary pulsars
● Today → Black holes
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Weak fields
Strong fields
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Black holes in Einstein's Gravity
● “No-Hair Theorem” → M, J, Q (a* = J/M2)
● Uncharged black holes → Kerr solution
● Clear predictions on the particle motion
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Astrophysical black holes
The spacetime metric around astrophysical black holes formed from gravitational collapse should be well approximated by the Kerr solution:
● Initial deviations are radiated away by gravitational waves
● Equilibrium electric charge is negligible
● Mass of the accretion disk is negligible
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Black hole “candidates”
● Stellar-mass black holes (3 – 100 Solar masses)
● Supermassive black holes (105 – 1010 Solar masses)
● Intermediate-mass black holes (102 – 104 Solar masses?)
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Figure courtesy of Jerome Orosz
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Supermassive BH candidate in the Galaxy
● Orbital motion of individual stars
● Point-like central object with a mass of 4x106 Solar masses
● Radius < 45 AU (600 RSch
)
From Ghez et al. 2005Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Black holes “candidates” → Dark and compact objects that can be naturally interpreted as the
Kerr black holes predicted in General Relativity
We want to observationally test whether the spacetime metric is described by the Kerr solution
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Method
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Disk-corona model
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Disk-corona model
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Disk-corona model
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Reflection spectrum
● Reflection spectrum at the emission point → Atomic physics
● Reflection spectrum far from the source → Einstein's gravity
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Reflection spectrum
● Reflection spectrum at the emission point → Atomic physics
● Reflection spectrum far from the source → Einstein's gravity
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Model
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RELXILL
● RELXILL is currently the most advanced X-ray reflection model for Kerr spacetimes
● Reflection spectrum at the emission point → XILLVER
● Reflection spectrum far from the source (assuming Einstein's gravity)
→ RELXILL ~ RELCOV*XILLVER
● RELXILL can be employed to measure black hole spins
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Impact of the inclination angle
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Impact of the emissivity index
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Impact of the spin parameter
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Current spin measurements
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Current spin measurements
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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RELXILL_NK
● RELXILL_NK is the natural extension of RELXILL for non-Kerr spacetimes
→ RELXILL_NK ~ RELCOV_NK*XILLVER
● “Deformation parameters”
● RELXILL_NK can be employed to test the Kerr black hole hypothesis
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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How can we test the Kerr natureof astrophysical black holes?
● Top-down approach:
We test a specific alternative theory of gravity against Einstein's gravity
Problems:
1) A large number of alternative theories...
2) We do not have rotating black hole solutions...
● Bottom-up approach:
See PPN formalism
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Solar System experiments:Schwarzschild solution in the weak field limit
● Parametrized Post-Newtonian formalism (PPN formalism)
● Weak field limit (M/r << 1)
● Solar System experiments
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Johannsen metric[Johannsen, PRD 88, 044002 (2013)]
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Impact of the deformation parameters (i = 30 deg)
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Impact of the deformation parameters (i = 80 deg)
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Results
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Sources
● 1H0707-495 (Cao et al., PRL 120, 051101, 2018; Zhou et al. PRD 024007, 2018)
● Ark 564 with Suzaku data (Tripathi et al., PRD 98, 023018, 2018)
● GX339-4 with RXTE data (Wang-Ji et al., arXiv:1806.00126)
● GS 1354-645 with NuSTAR (Xu et al., ApJ, 865, 134, 2018)
● Mrk 335 with Suzaku (Choudhury et al., arXiv:1809.06669)
● Cygnus X-1 with NuSTAR data (in preparation)
● MCG-6-30-15 with XMM-Newton+NuSTAR (in preparation)
● ...
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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1H0707-495: XMM-Newton data of 2011
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Cao et al., PRL 120, 051101 (2018)
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1H0707-495: NuSTAR+Swift
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Cao et al., PRL 120, 051101 (2018)
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Ark 564: Suzaku
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Tripathi et al., PRD 98, 023018 (2018)
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GX 339-4: RXTE
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Wang-Ji et al., arXiv:1806.00126
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Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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GX 339-4: RXTE
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GS 1354: NuSTAR
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
Xu et al., ApJ 865, 134 (2018)
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Conclusions
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Road map
Last 3 years (2016-2018):
● Astrophysical model (RELXILL_NK, Bambi et al. ApJ 842, 76, 2017)
● Preliminary observational constraints (Cao et al. PRL 120, 051101, 2018 etc. + papers under review or in preparation)
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Road map
Last 3 years (2016-2018):
● Astrophysical model (RELXILL_NK, Bambi et al. ApJ 842, 76, 2017)
● Preliminary observational constraints (Cao et al. PRL 120, 051101, 2018 etc. + papers under review or in preparation)
Next 5 years (2019-2023):
● Improving the astrophysical model
● Analyzing more data
● Testing new gravity models
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Road map
Last 3 years (2016-2018):
● Astrophysical model (RELXILL_NK, Bambi et al. ApJ 842, 76, 2017)
● Preliminary observational constraints (Cao et al. PRL 120, 051101, 2018 etc. + papers under review or in preparation)
Next 5 years (2019-2023):
● Improving the astrophysical model
● Analyzing more data
● Testing new gravity models
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Road map
Last 3 years (2016-2018):
● Astrophysical model (RELXILL_NK, Bambi et al. ApJ 842, 76, 2017)
● Preliminary observational constraints (Cao et al. PRL 120, 051101, 2018 etc. + papers under review or in preparation)
Next 5 years (2019-2023):
● Improving the astrophysical model
● Analyzing more data
● Testing new gravity models
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Road map
Last 3 years (2016-2018):
● Astrophysical model (RELXILL_NK, Bambi et al. ApJ 842, 76, 2017)
● Preliminary observational constraints (Cao et al. PRL 120, 051101, 2018 etc. + papers under review or in preparation)
Next 5 years (2019-2023):
● Improving the astrophysical model
● Analyzing more data
● Testing new gravity models
Motivations – Method – Model – Results – Conclusions
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Thank you!
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PhD positions at Fudan University
● Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
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● International PhD students
Application deadline: November 30
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