The Soft State of the Black Hole Transient Source MAXI J1820+070: Emission from the Edge of the Plunge Region?

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>The Galactic black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 had a bright outburst in 2018 when it became the second brightest X-ray source in the sky. It was too bright for X-ray CCD instruments such as XMM–Newton and Chandra, but w...

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Main Authors: Fabian, AC, Buisson, DJ, Kosec, P, Reynolds, CS, Wilkins, DR, Tomsick, JA, Walton, DJ, Gandhi, P, Altamirano, D, Arzoumanian, Z, Cackett, EM, Dyda, S, Garcia, JA, Gendreau, KC, Grefenstette, BW, Homan, J, Kara, E, Ludlam, RM, Miller, JM, Steiner, JF
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132445