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World Scientific Publishing, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 01(12), p. 63-77

DOI: 10.1142/s0218271803002718

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The RELATIVISTIC IRON Kα LINE FROM AN ACCRETION DISC ONTO a STATIC NON-BARYONIC COMPACT OBJECT

Journal article published in 2003 by Youjun Lu, Diego F. Torres ORCID
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Abstract

This paper continues the study of the properties of an accretion disc rotating around a non-baryonic (assumed super-massive) compact object. This kind of objects, generically known as boson stars, were earlier proposed as a possible alternative scenario to the existence of super-masive black holes in the center of every galaxy. A dilute boson star has also been proposed as a large part of the non-baryonic dark matter, flattening galactic rotational velocities curves. In this contribution, we compute the profile of the emission lines of Iron; its shape has been for long known as a useful diagnosis of the space-time geometry. We compare with the case of a Schwarzschild black hole, concluding that the differences are observationally distinguishable.