High-density Reflection Spectroscopy of Black Hole X-Ray Binaries in the Hard State

High-density Reflection Spectroscopy of Black Hole X-Ray Binaries in the Hard State

We present a high-density relativistic reflection analysis of 21 spectra of six black hole X-ray binaries in the hard state with data from NuSTAR and Swift. We find that 76% of the observations in our sample require a disk density higher than the 10 ^15 cm ^−3 assumed in the previous reflection anal...

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Main Authors: Honghui Liu, Jiachen Jiang, Zuobin Zhang, Cosimo Bambi, Andrew C. Fabian, Javier A. García, Adam Ingram, Erin Kara, James F. Steiner, John A. Tomsick, Dominic J. Walton, Andrew J. Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Accretion
X-ray binary stars
Stellar-mass black holes
High-energy astrophysics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acd8b9

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acd8b9

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