The first accurate parallax distance to a black hole

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 706, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Miller Jones, J C A ^a   Jonker, P G ^b,f   Dhawan, V ^c   Brisken, W ^c   Rupen, M P ^c   Nelemans, G ^d   Gallo, E ^e  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Radio continuum: stars; Stars: distances; Stars: individual (V404 Cyg); Stars: kinematics; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949530688     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/2/L230     Document Type: Article

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