1 - SISSA-ISAS, Via Beirut 2/4, I-34014 Trieste (Italy)
2 - Astronomical Institute of the Charles University,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics V Holesovickach 2 CZ - 180 00 Praha
(Czech Republic)
3 - Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' degli Studi "ROMA
TRE" Via della Vasca Navale 84 - I-00146 Roma (Italy)
Abstract
The well known ASCA observation of the relativistic iron line profile in the
Seyfert 1 galaxy MGC-6-30-15 spectrum has prompted a wealth of work in
modelling line profiles of both static and spinning black holes under
different physical and geometrical assumptions. Not much attention,
however, has been paid on the effects on the reflection continuum,
which is produced along with the iron line. We present calculations
of the relativistic effects on both the reflection continuum and on the
line profile, obtained with a fully relativistic code in Kerr metric,
and discuss the observability of these effects by present and
future detectors.