MEASURING BLACK HOLE SPIN VIA THE X-RAY CONTINUUM-FITTING METHOD: BEYOND THE THERMAL DOMINANT STATE
All prior work on measuring the spins of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) via the X-ray continuum-fitting (CF) method has relied on the use of weakly Comptonized spectra obtained in the thermal dominant (TD) state. Using a self-consistent Comptonization model, we show that one can analyze spectra that...
Main Authors: | Steiner, James F. (Author), McClintock, Jeffrey E. (Author), Narayan, Ramesh (Author), Gou, Lijun (Author), Remillard, Ronald A (Author) |
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Other Authors: | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Remillard, Ronald Alan (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society,
2015-03-12T14:28:06Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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