A determination of the spin of the black hole primary in LMC X-1

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 701, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1076-1090

  Gou, Lijun ^a   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^a   Liu, Jifeng ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Steiner, James F ^a   Remillard, Ronald A ^b   Orosz, Jerome A ^c   Davis, Shane W ^d   Ebisawa, Ken ^e   Schlegel, Eric M ^f  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: General; Black hole physics; Galaxies: Individual (LMC); X rays: Binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449839488     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1076     Document Type: Article

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