Thursday 13 August at 2pm

Emilios Harlaftis - National Observatory of Athens

"Keck observations of galactic black holes" ABSTRACT:I will present an overview of black hole research in general and present the historical development of searching for galactic black holes. In particular Soft X-ray transients are the best candidates for black holes and the programme undertaken by the Keck-I telescope will be presented on GRO J0422+32, GS2000+32 and Nova Oph 1977. The mass ratios are determined and images of the disc around the black holes are reconstructed. "