Measuring Black Hole Spin
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An astrophysical black hole is completely described with
just two parameters: its mass and its dimensionless spin. A few
dozen black holes have mass estimates, but until recently none had a
reliable spin estimate. In the last few years, our group has measured
spin parameters for a small number of black holes in X-ray binaries.
The talk will describe the method we use to make these measurements
and will discuss implications of the results obtained so far.
This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Colloquia series.
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