The constant inner-disk radius of lmc X-3: A basis for measuring black hole spin

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 718, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Steiner, James F ^a   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^a   Remillard, Ronald A ^b   Gou, Lijun ^a   Yamada, Shin'ya ^c   Narayan, Ramesh ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretion; Accretion disks black hole physics stars; Binaries; Individual (LMC X 3) X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349294596     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/718/2/L117     Document Type: Article

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