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    The Astrophysics of Black Hole Spin

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    2013-04-22
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    Reynolds , Chris
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    In addition to providing vital clues as to the formation and evolution of black holes, the spin of black holes may be an important energy source in the Universe. Over the past couple of years, tremendous progress has been made in the realm of observational measurements of spin. I will describe these efforts with particular focus on the use of X-ray spectroscopy to probe the spin of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN). I shall describe results from the Suzaku AGNSpin Survey, a Suzaku Key Project that targets five bright and well-known AGN with observations of sufficient depth that black hole spin can be assessed. For the first time, we are obtaining hints about the distribution of spins across the population of supermassive black holes with some interesting and unexpected consequences
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