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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Main Authors: 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
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95710

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