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Measurement of Masses of Galactic Black Holes from Spectral Analysis

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Mass is one of the intrinsic properties of black holes. In this article, some methods of measuring the mass of the black hole and a brief comparison of these methods is discussed. We show that Two Component Advective Flow (TCAF) model is capable of computing masses quite accurately even with a few seconds of spectral data.

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I am highly indebted to my supervisors Dr. Dipak Debnath and Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti for their guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the review and also for their support in completing the review. I would also like to thank my departmental colleagues for their constant motivations and suggestions to complete this review. I acknowledge the support of DST/SERB sponsored Extra Mural Research project (EMR/2016/003918).

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    Sudipta Sasmal

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Chatterjee, D. (2018). Measurement of Masses of Galactic Black Holes from Spectral Analysis. In: Mukhopadhyay, B., Sasmal, S. (eds) Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94607-8_22

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