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X-ray Measurements of Accreting black holes with Polarimetric-Spectral-timing techniques

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f combining these two powerful diagnostics into polarimetric-spectral-timing. This requires a huge increase in the computational intensity of my state-of-the-art models that my group will enable with machine learning to achieve the following science goals: 1) Understand state transitions: We will constrain how the structure of the disk-corona system evolves as the spectral shape changes and large-scale transient jets are launched, informing on the jet launching mechanism and thus how supermassive BHs influence their host galaxies. 2) Measure BH mass: The current observational picture that BHs in gravitational wave (GW) sources are heavier than those in Galactic XRBs has deep implications for binary evolution theory. We will make BH mass measurements using the X-ray signal alone, enabling measurements for XRBs inaccessible to traditional optical techniques (~70% of the population), which are thought to harbour heavier BHs. This will enable us to test the importance of observational bias in the comparison of XRBs with GW sources. 3) Measure 3D BH spin orientation: I recently found s

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