6th FERO meeting

ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRAGUE
Boční II 1401, 141 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic

30th – 31st of August 2012


Euro in Czech Crowns: 1€ = Kč
Metro-Tram scheme
Map of centre (more detailed)
    September


Cosimo Bambi

Testing the Kerr-nature of black hole candidates


The final product of the gravitational collapse is thought to be a Kerr black hole and astronomers have discovered many good astrophysical candidates. In order to confirm the Kerr-nature of these objects, we need to probe the geometry of the space-time around them and check if it is consistent with the predictions of the Kerr metric. In this talk, I will discuss how the study of the properties of the radiation emitted by the gas in the accretion disc can test the Kerr black hole hypothesis with present and near future data.