2001/05/29 by Chris Done, Done, Chris
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0105505
Yokohama conference proceedings, PASP conf. Series, Eds H. Kunieda and H. Inoue
arxiv created 2001/05/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Hard X-ray emission is ubiquitous in accreting black holes, both in Galactic binary systems and in Active Galactic Nuclei. I review the different spectra which can be seen from these systems, and possible ways of producing this emission. X-ray reflection should give an observational test of these scenarios, but we need better models before this can give an unambiguous diagnostic of the accretion geometry.