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Reflection Spectroscopy of the Black Hole Binary XTE J1752-223 in its Long-Stable Hard State
Javier A. García, James F. Steiner, Victoria Grinberg +7
We present a detailed spectral analysis of the Black Hole Binary XTE J1752-223 in the hard state of its 2009 outburst. Regular monitoring of this source by RXTE provided high signa…
Self-Consistent Black Hole Accretion Spectral Models and the Forgotten Role of Coronal Comptonization of Reflection Emission
James F. Steiner, Javier A. Garcia, Wiebke Eikmann +4
Continuum and reflection spectral models have each been widely employed in measuring the spins of accreting black holes. However, the two approaches have not been implemented toget…
Stronger Reflection from Black Hole Accretion Disks in Soft X-ray States
James F. Steiner, Ronald A. Remillard, Javier A. Garcia +1
We analyze 15,000 spectra of 29 stellar-mass black hole candidates collected over the 16-year mission lifetime of RXTE using a simple phenomenological model. As these black holes v…
High-Density Effects in X-ray Reflection Models from Accretion Disks
Javier A. García, Andrew C. Fabian, Timothy R. Kallman +5
Current models of the spectrum of X-rays reflected from accretion disks around black holes and other compact objects are commonly calculated assuming that the density of the disk a…
An Empirical Method for Improving the Quality of RXTE HEXTE Spectra
Javier A. García, Victoria Grinberg, James F. Steiner +3
We have developed a correction tool to improve the quality of RXTE HEXTE spectra by employing the same method we used earlier to improve the quality of RXTE PCA spectra. We fit all…
The Mass of the Black Hole in the X-ray Binary Nova Muscae 1991
Jianfeng Wu, Jerome A. Orosz, Jeffrey E. McClintock +4
The optical counterpart of the black-hole soft X-ray transient Nova Muscae 1991 has brightened by mag since its return to quiescence 23 years ago. We present the f…