THE LOW-SPIN BLACK HOLE IN LMC X-3

被引：52

作者：

Steiner, James F. ^{[1
]}

McClintock, Jeffrey E. ^{[1
]}

Orosz, Jerome A. ^{[2
]}

Remillard, Ronald A. ^{[3
]}

Bailyn, Charles D. ^{[4
]}

Kolehmainen, Mari ^{[5
]}

Straub, Odele ^{[6
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[2] San Diego State Univ, Dept Astron, San Diego, CA 92182 USA

[3] MIT, MIT Kavli Inst Astrophys & Space Res, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[4] Yale Univ, Dept Astron, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[5] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England

[6] Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS, LUTH, Observ Paris, F-92190 Meudon, France

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | 2014年 / 793卷 / 02期

关键词：

accretion; accretion disks; black hole physics; stars: individual (LMC X-3); X-rays: binaries; X-RAY BINARIES; ACCRETION DISK; INNER-DISK; JET POWER; GALAXY; MODEL; GRS-1915+105; ENERGY;

D O I：

10.1088/2041-8205/793/2/L29

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Building upon a new dynamical model for the X-ray binary LMC X-3, we measure the spin of its black hole (BH) primary via the continuum-fitting method. We consider over one thousand thermal-state Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer X-ray spectra of LMC X-3. Using a large subset of these spectra, we constrain the spin parameter of the BH to be a(*) = 0.25(-0.29)(+0.20) (90% confidence). Our estimate of the uncertainty in a(*) takes into account a wide range of systematic errors. We discuss evidence for a correlation between a BH's spin and the complexity of its X-ray spectrum.

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