THE MASS OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

THE MASS OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

Cygnus X-1 is a binary star system that is comprised of a black hole and a massive giant companion star in a tight orbit. Building on our accurate distance measurement reported in the preceding paper, we first determine the radius of the companion star, thereby constraining the scale of the binary s...

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Main Authors: Orosz, Jerome A. (Author), McClintock, Jeffrey E. (Author), Aufdenberg, Jason P. (Author), Reid, Mark J. (Author), Narayan, Ramesh (Author), Gou, Lijun (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, 2015-02-27T15:27:59Z.
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