Evolution of Accretion States in Stellar-mass Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Abstrakt

X-ray spectral studies of stellar-mass black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) showed that these systems follow an evolutionary path going through different accretion states. We aim to perform a systematic investigation of this evolution in BHXRBs by studying the relativistic effects on the accretion disk emission.

We intend to enhance previous works by increasing the quality of statistical representation of the thermal X-ray emission from the disk by using a wider range of instruments with higher sensitivities.