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Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Powered by Radiatively Efficient Two-Phased Super-Eddington Accretion onto Stellar Mass Black holes
Aristotle Socrates, Shane W. Davis
The radiation spectra of many of the brightest ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are dominated by a hard power law component, likely powered by a hot, optically thin corona that C…
Estimating the Spin of Stellar-Mass Black Holes via Spectral Fitting of the X-ray Continuum
Rebecca Shafee, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan +3
We fit X-ray spectral data in the thermal dominant or high soft state of two dynamically confirmed black holes, GRO J1655-40 and 4U 1543-47, and estimate the dimensionless spin par…
The Effects of Photon Bubble Instability in Radiation-Dominated Accretion Disks
N. J. Turner, O. M. Blaes, A. Socrates +2
We examine the effects of photon bubble instability in radiation-dominated accretion disks such as those found around black holes in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binary star sy…