Ongoing / Future Project

Our next plan is to employ the above mentioned calculations to model the spectra (using complete general relativistic calculations of radiative hydrodynamics, which we have started working on), and can theoretically study how the black hole spin influences such spectral features. One can then make attempts to fit such theoretical spectra against observational spectra of black hole X-ray binaries and the galactic centre black hole candidates, to investigate whether it is possible to predict the spectral signature of black hole spin.

Our proposed future work on spectral determination of black hole spin, as we believe, will be an immensely important step forward towards a better understanding of spectral properties of X-ray binaries, as well as of relativistic black hole astrophysics in general.