Astrophysics and Space Science
From X-Ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on all Mass Scales
Book
Chapter
We discuss the prospects for detecting faint intermediate-mass black holes, such as those predicted to exist in the cores of globular clusters and dwarf spheroidal galaxies.We briefly summarize the difficultie...
Chapter and Conference Paper
The new generation of X-ray Observatories (Chandra and XMM-Newton) has improved the flux limits to which faint X-ray sources can be detected, allowing to resolve most of the X-ray background into discrete sour...