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About the Kerr nature of the stellar-mass black hole in GRS 1915+105

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arxiv 1901.06117 v2 pith:UZB3P7DR submitted 2019-01-18 gr-qc astro-ph.HE

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We employ the accretion disk reflection model RELXILL_NK to test the spacetime geometry around the stellar-mass black hole in GRS 1915+105. We adopt the Johannsen metric with the deformation parameters $\alpha_{13}$ and $\alpha_{22}$, for which the Kerr solution is recovered when $\alpha_{13} = \alpha_{22} = 0$. We analyze a NuSTAR observation of 2012, obtaining vanishing and non-vanishing values of the deformation parameters depending on the astrophysical model adopted. Similar difficulties were not found in our previous tests with other sources. The results of this work can shed light on the choice of sources suitable for testing the Kerr metric using X-ray reflection spectroscopy and on the parts of our reflection models that more urgently require improvement.

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  1. Relativistic reflection spectra of super-spinning black holes

    gr-qc 2019-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Fitting Suzaku reflection spectra with a super-spinning spacetime model finds apparent deviations from Kerr in Ark 120 and Swift J0501.9, but the 3-sigma claim is not consistently supported for Swift.

  2. RELXILL_NK: A Black Hole Relativistic Reflection Model for Testing General Relativity

    gr-qc 2019-08 conditional novelty 3.0 of 10

    RELXILL_NK, a publicly available X-ray reflection model that includes non-Kerr black hole spacetimes, is presented and three of its flavors are compared using the Johannsen metric.

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