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Ramesh Narayan, Harvard
Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:30-17:30
Measuring Black Hole Spin
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- đ¤ Speaker: Ramesh Narayan, Harvard
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:30 - 17:30
- đ Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm)
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Abstract
An astrophysical black hole is completely described with just two parameters: its mass and its dimensionless spin. A few dozen black holes have mass estimates, but until recently none had a reliable spin estimate. In the last few years, our group has measured spin parameters for a small number of black holes in X-ray binaries. The talk will describe the method we use to make these measurements and will discuss implications of the results obtained so far.
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