Day 212

Saturday.  Okay, must catch up for at least 3 days worth.  I have another 3 days to catch up tomorrow, on top of that!  As for my problems:  I feel like I've done all I can do, and now I'm happy (at peace with myself).  It doesn't seem to be true at the other end.  Going back to work: I can't run the Subaru pipeline and read astro-ph at the same time.  At all.  The pipeline requires too much attention.

1202.5193

The similarity of broad iron lines in X-ray binaries and AGN

Walton, Reis, Cackett, Fabian, Miller

Both optically thick accretion discs and optically thin coronae (which in combination naturally give rise to relativistically-broadened iron lines when the disk extends close to the BH), are commonly observed in both class of object.  The simplest solution is that the broad emission features present arise from a common process: must be the reflection from the inner regions of an accretion disc around a rapidly rotating BH.