Accretion, ejection and reprocessing in supermassive black holes

2015/01/12 by A. De Rosa, Alessandra De Rosa, S. Bianchi +85
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.02768

White Paper in Support of the Mission Concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

arxiv created 2015/01/12 · openalex publication_date 2015/01/12 · arxiv updated 2015/01/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This is a White Paper in support of the mission concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT), proposed as a medium-sized ESA mission. We discuss the potential of LOFT for the study of active galactic nuclei. For a summary, we refer to the paper.

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