XTE J1118480: A metal-rich black hole binary in the galactic halo

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 644, Issue 1, 2006, Pages L49-L52

  González Hernández, Jonay I ^a,b,c   Rebolo, Rafael ^a,d   Israelian, Garik ^a   Harlaftis, Emilios T ^e   Filippenko, Alexei V ^f   Chornock, Ryan ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b CIFIST Marie Curie Excellence Team   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Stars: abundances; Stars: evolution; Stars: individual (XTE J1118480); Supernovae: general; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887948654     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505391     Document Type: Article

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