Confirmation via the continuum-fitting method that the spin of the black hole in Cygnus X-1 is extreme

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 790, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gou, Lijun ^a,b   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^b   Remillard, Ronald A ^c   Steiner, James F ^b   Reid, Mark J ^b   Orosz, Jerome A ^d   Narayan, Ramesh ^b   Hanke, Manfred ^e   García, Javier ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

black hole physics; X rays: binaries; X rays: individual (Cygnus X 1)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904161109     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/790/1/29     Document Type: Article

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