A NICER Future for Accreting Stellar-Mass Black Holes
1 : MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 -
United States
NICER is the new premier X-ray timing instrument onboard the ISS, having been installed this summer. I will present some of NICER's early results on black hole microquasars, and describe NICER's prospects for addressing fundamental topics such as discerning accretion-disk structure, mapping disk-coronal geometry, and measuring black-hole spin.
| Subject : | : | oral |
| Topics | : | Global Evolution of XrB in outburst |
| Topics | : | Structure and dynamics of accretions flow from temporal approaches |
| Topics | : | Instrumental panorama including projects |
| Keywords | : | NICER ; black hole ; accretion |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
