The disc-spin-jet connection in stellar and supermassive black holes

Tuesday 24 Feb 2015, 15:00 → 16:30 Asia/Tokyo

RIBF Bldg. 2F, Room 203 (RIKEN Wako)

============================================================ 第144回 「高エネルギー宇宙物理研究室 知の共有ゼミ」 のご案内 ============================================================ 日時 : 2015年2月24日 (木曜日) 15:00から Date: 2/24 (Thu) Time: 3 pm 会場 : RIBF棟会議室203号室 Place: RIBF building 2nd floor seminar room (203) Title : The disc-spin-jet connection in stellar and supermassive black holes Lecturer：Chris Done (Department of Physics, Durham University) Abstruct： Black hole spin is difficult to measure as it leaves an imprint only close to the horizon, but it may be required to produce most dramatic relativistic jets seen in the flat spectrum radio quasars (FRII) and BL Lacs (FRI). I will review what we know about the connection between the accretion flow, jet and spin in the stellar mass black hole binary systems and then scale this up to the supermassive black holes in AGN and quasars, including spin constraints from the new techniques which use fast variability to reverberation map the inner disc.