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Determination of Supermassive Black Hole Spins Based on the Standard Shakura–Sunyaev Accretion Disk Model and Polarimetric Observations

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Based on spectropolarimetry for 47 type 1 active galactic nuclei observed with the 6-m BTA telescope, we have estimated the spins of the supermassive black holes at the centers of these galaxies. We have determined the spins based on the standard Shakura–Sunyaev accretion disk model. About 70% of the investigated active galactic nuclei are shown to have Kerr supermassive black holes with a dimensionless spin greater than 0.9.

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    V. L. Afanasiev

  2. Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pulkovskoe sh. 65, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russia

    Yu.N. Gnedin, M.Yu. Piotrovich, S. D. Buliga & T. M. Natsvlishvili

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Original Russian Text © V.L. Afanasiev, Yu.N. Gnedin, M.Yu. Piotrovich, S.D. Buliga, T.M. Natsvlishvili, 2018, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 395–403.

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Afanasiev, V.L., Gnedin, Y., Piotrovich, M. et al. Determination of Supermassive Black Hole Spins Based on the Standard Shakura–Sunyaev Accretion Disk Model and Polarimetric Observations. Astron. Lett. 44, 362–369 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773718060014

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