THE EXTREME SPIN OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

THE EXTREME SPIN OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

The compact primary in the X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 was the first black hole to be established via dynamical observations. We have recently determined accurate values for its mass and distance, and for the orbital inclination angle of the binary. Building on these results, which are based on our favo...

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Autors principals: Gou, Lijun, McClintock, Jeffrey E., Reid, Mark J., Orosz, Jerome A., Steiner, James F., Narayan, Ramesh, Xiang, Jingen, Arnaud, Keith A., Davis, Shane W., Remillard, Ronald A
Altres autors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Idioma:en_US
Publicat: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Accés en línia:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95710

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