Discovery of a black hole mass-period correlation in soft X-ray transients and its implication for gamma-ray burst and hypernova mechanisms

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 575, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 996-1006

  Lee, C H ^a,b,c   Brown, G E ^c   Wijers, R A M J ^c,d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Black hole physics; Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013438602     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341349     Document Type: Article

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