The Future of Fe-K Line Diagnostics for Probing Strong Gravity
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We review what we have learnt with ASCA from studying the Fe-K lines in AGN and describe a program to deconvolve the narrow, non-disk components of the lines with Chandra. This is necessary to derive the correct profiles of the broad, relativistic lines obtained using data from XMM and other high-throughput instruments. Since reverberation techniques are now not looking promising, we present Constellation-X simulations showing an alternative way we might be able to measure black-hole mass and spin.
To appear in Proc. of ``New Century of X-ray Astronomy'', (Japan, March 2001), eds.H. Inoue, H. Kunieda, ASP Conf. Series, in press (4 pages). Refereed
To appear in Proc. of ``New Century of X-ray Astronomy'', (Japan, March 2001), eds.H. Inoue, H. Kunieda, ASP Conf. Series, in press (4 pages). Refereed