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The chapter briefly reviews current attempts to test the Kerr metric around astrophysical black holes with the continuum-fitting method, X-ray reflection spectroscopy, and quasi-periodic oscilations.
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Since the metric of the spacetimes III, IV, and V is given numerically, the precision of the calculations is lower and a smaller accretion disk is employed. The “wiggles” in the shape of these lines are due to resolution effects of the numerical metric.
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XSPEC is an X-ray spectral-fitting software commonly used in X-ray astronomy. See [2] and http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xspec/index.html for more details.
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Bambi, C. (2017). Testing the Kerr Paradigm with X-Ray Observations. In: Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4524-0_13
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