Precise measurement of the spin parameter of the stellar-mass black hole M33 X-7

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 679, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Jifeng ^a   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Davis, Shane W ^b   Orosz, Jerome A ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: individual (M33); General; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 53049094764     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588840     Document Type: Article

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