A PARALLAX DISTANCE TO THE MICROQUASAR GRS 1915+105 AND A REVISED ESTIMATE OF ITS BLACK HOLE MASS

A PARALLAX DISTANCE TO THE MICROQUASAR GRS 1915+105 AND A REVISED ESTIMATE OF ITS BLACK HOLE MASS

Using the Very Long Baseline Array, we have measured a trigonometric parallax for the microquasar GRS 1915+105, which contains a black hole and a K-giant companion. This yields a direct distance estimate of 8.6[+2.0 over -1.6] kpc and a revised estimate for the mass of the black hole of 12.4[+2.0 ov...

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Main Authors: Reid, M. J. (Author), McClintock, Jeffrey E. (Author), Steiner, J. F. (Author), Steeghs, D. (Author), Dhawan, V. (Author), Narayan, Ramesh (Author), Remillard, Ronald A (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Remillard, Ronald Alan (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-01-22T13:18:58Z.
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