ESA Science & Technology - Variable and Broad Iron Lines around Black Holes

Start date: 27 Jun 2006
Address: ESAC, near Madrid, Spain
Organiser: XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre

Agenda: This workshop meeting will focus on the iron line emitted around accreting black holes and will concentrate on results and discoveries from XMM-Newton, Chandra and Suzaku, as well as other current missions, and on theoretical progress. The following general topics are planned to be covered (the first 3 are more observational and the last 2 more theoretical):

• Broad iron lines and reflection in AGN
• Broad iron lines and reflection in Black Hole Candidates
• Variable shifted lines
• X-ray reflection and spectral variability
• Understanding the innermost flows around Black Holes