The many tones of accretion - to the memory of Tomaso Belloni

Session

Memorial talk

8 Sept 2026, 11:30

Cefalù

83. Tomaso, dips, Cygnus X-1

Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESTEC)

08/09/2026, 17:15

Talk

Tomaso and I were the first post-doc and PhD student, respectively, of Michiel van der Klis when he became professor at the API in Amsterdam. Afterwards, in time at various meetings we interacted and even combined our research interests, especially related to (absorption) dips in the light curves of black-hole X-ray binaries.
In a paper in 1996, Tomaso with colleagues reported on an...