Estimating the spin of stellar-mass black holes by spectral fitting of the X-ray continuum

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 636, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Shafee, Rebecca ^a   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^b   Narayan, Ramesh ^b   Davis, Shane W ^c   Li, Li Xin ^d   Remillard, Ronald A ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Black hole physics; Stars: individual (4U 1543 47, GRO J1655 40); X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044474821     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498938     Document Type: Article

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