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The influence of general relativistic effects on the continuum spectra of geometrically thin accretion disks surrounding weakly magnetized neutron stars or black holes in compact x-ray sources is considered. Specific attention is focused on the effect of the gravitational redshift and relativistic Doppler shift on the emission spectrum and on the enhancement of the apparent accretion disk area due to gravitational light bending for a range of system inclination angles. It is shown that the effects of general relativity can be significant as compared to the Newtonian model especially for those cases where the inner edge of the accretion disk extends to the innermost stable orbit. As an application of these results we investigate the constraints on the mass transfer rate imposed by the lack of soft x-rays emitted during the quiescent state of the black hole candidate A0620-00.
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Taam, R.E., Fu, A. (1989). The Spectra of Relativistic Accretion Disks. In: Meyer, F., Duschl, W.J., Frank, J., Meyer-Hofmeister, E. (eds) Theory of Accretion Disks. NATO ASI Series, vol 290. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1037-9_31
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