A black hole greater than 6 M⊙ in the X-ray nova XTE J1118+480

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 551, Issue 2 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  McClintock, J E ^a   Garcia, M R ^a   Caldwell, N ^b   Falco, E E ^b   Garnavich, P M ^c   Zhao, P ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035918079     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320030     Document Type: Article

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