THE MASS OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

THE MASS OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

Cygnus X-1 is a binary star system that is comprised of a black hole and a massive giant companion star in a tight orbit. Building on our accurate distance measurement reported in the preceding paper, we first determine the radius of the companion star, thereby constraining the scale of the binary s...

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Main Authors: Orosz, Jerome A., McClintock, Jeffrey E., Aufdenberg, Jason P., Reid, Mark J., Narayan, Ramesh, Gou, Lijun, Remillard, Ronald A
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95721

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