On the lack of thermal emission from the quiescent black hole XTE J118+480: Evidence for the event horizon

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 615, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 402-415

  McClintock, Jeffrey E ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Rybicki, George B ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: Close; Black hole physics; X rays: Binaries; X rays: Stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844225210     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424474     Document Type: Article

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