CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 48, No.: 3, year: 2018

Abstract: Accretion onto black holes often proceeds via an accretion disk or a temporary disk-like pattern. Variability features observed in light curves as well as theoretical models of accretion flows suggest that accretion disks tend to be inhomogeneous — variety of substructures (clumps) emerge within the flow. Rapid orbital motion of individual clumps then modulates the observed signal in X-rays. Furthermore, changes of spectral lines and polarization properties of the observed signal (or the absence of changes) constrain the models and reveal information about general relativity (GR) effects. In this write-up we summarize the basic equations that have been employed to study light propagation near black holes and to derive the radiation signal that can be expected at a detector within the framework of geometrical optics approximation.

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