Dynamical evidence for a black hole in GX 339-4

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 583, Issue 2 II, 2003, Pages

  Hynes, R I ^a,b   Steeghs, D ^b,c   Casares, J ^d   Charles, P A ^b   O'Brien, K ^e,f  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Stars: individual (V821 Arae); X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042335472     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368108     Document Type: Article

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