Iron line spectroscopy has been one of the leading methods not only for measuring the spins of accreting black holes but also for testing fundamental physics. Basing on such a method, we present an analysis of a dataset observed simultaneously by NuSTAR and NICER for the black hole binary candidate MAXI J1803-298, which shows prominent relativistic reflection features. Various relxill_nk flavors are utilized to test the Kerr black hole hypothesis. The results obtained from our analysis provide stringent constraints on Johannsen deformation parameter α₁₃ with the highest precise to date, namely α₁₃=0.023+0.071-0.038 from relxillD_nk and α₁₃=0.006+0.045-0.022 from relxillion_nk respectively in 3-σ credible lever, where Johannsen metric reduces to Kerr metric when α₁₃ vanishes. Furthermore, we investigate the best model-fit results using Akaike Information Criterion and assess its systematic uncertainties.
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