Ebook: Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe: Proceedings of a Conference held in Calcutta, India, January 10–17, 1998

A conference on `Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe' was held in Calcutta during January 10-17, 1998. This was the first time that experts had gathered to debate and discuss topics such as: Should black holes exist? If so, how to detect them? Have we found them? This book is the essence of this gathering.
Black holes are enigmatic objects since it is impossible to locate them through direct observations. State-of-the-art theoretical works and numerical simulations have given us enough clues of what to look for. Observations, from both ground and space-based missions, have been able to find these tell-tale signatures. This book is a compendium of our present knowledge about these theories and observations. Combined, they give a thorough idea of whether black holes, galactic as well as extragalactic, have been detected or not. Forty-one experts of the subject have contributed to this volume to make it the most comprehensive to date.

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A conference on `Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe' was held in Calcutta during January 10-17, 1998. This was the first time that experts had gathered to debate and discuss topics such as: Should black holes exist? If so, how to detect them? Have we found them? This book is the essence of this gathering.
Black holes are enigmatic objects since it is impossible to locate them through direct observations. State-of-the-art theoretical works and numerical simulations have given us enough clues of what to look for. Observations, from both ground and space-based missions, have been able to find these tell-tale signatures. This book is a compendium of our present knowledge about these theories and observations. Combined, they give a thorough idea of whether black holes, galactic as well as extragalactic, have been detected or not. Forty-one experts of the subject have contributed to this volume to make it the most comprehensive to date.

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A conference on `Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe' was held in Calcutta during January 10-17, 1998. This was the first time that experts had gathered to debate and discuss topics such as: Should black holes exist? If so, how to detect them? Have we found them? This book is the essence of this gathering.
Black holes are enigmatic objects since it is impossible to locate them through direct observations. State-of-the-art theoretical works and numerical simulations have given us enough clues of what to look for. Observations, from both ground and space-based missions, have been able to find these tell-tale signatures. This book is a compendium of our present knowledge about these theories and observations. Combined, they give a thorough idea of whether black holes, galactic as well as extragalactic, have been detected or not. Forty-one experts of the subject have contributed to this volume to make it the most comprehensive to date.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Accretion Disc Theory: From the Standard Model until Advection....Pages 1-18
Accretion Disks around Black Holes: Twenty Five Years Later....Pages 19-48
Viscosity in Accretion Disks....Pages 49-60
Shock Formation in Adiabatic Accretion Flows around a Kerr Black Hole....Pages 61-72
Rotating Accretion Flows near a Black Hole: A Numerical Study....Pages 73-82
Simulations of Shocks with Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics Method....Pages 83-104
Nucleosynthesis in Advective Accretion Disks around Galactic and Extra-Galactic Black Holes....Pages 105-112
Computation of Mass-Outflow Rates from Advective Accretion Disks around Black Holes....Pages 113-122
Black Hole Solutions of Einstein’s Equations an Overview....Pages 123-140
Water Mega Masers in NGC4258....Pages 141-156
Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 157-186
Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Massive Black Hole....Pages 187-201
Multifrequency Monitoring of Blazars....Pages 203-208
The OJ287 Supermassive Binary Black Hole Model and the New Unified Scheme for the AGNS....Pages 209-214
Strong Gravity and X-ray Spectroscopy....Pages 215-230
My Involvement in the Early Years of Radio Astronomy....Pages 231-240
Radio Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei: Evidence for Disks and Black Holes....Pages 241-246
High Proper Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sgr A*: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy....Pages 247-264
Black Holes in Our Galaxy....Pages 265-278
Outbursts in Black Hole X-ray Transients: Clues from Multiwavelength Observations....Pages 279-292
The High-Energy Spectra of Accreting Black Holes: Viewing the Matter as It Disappears Down the Schwarzschild Drain....Pages 293-308
X-ray Spectral Variability of Black Hole Binaries....Pages 309-318
Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the X-Ray Flux from the Black Hole Candidates....Pages 319-340
X-Ray Properties of GRS 1915+105....Pages 341-350
X-ray Observation of Black Hole Novae....Pages 351-368
A Transition Disk Model Fit to Cygnus X-1....Pages 369-384
Are the X-rays Coming from the Inside of the Accretion Disk of the Black Hole ?....Pages 385-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-394
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