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Measuring the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes
Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard
In astronomy, the problem of black holes is arguably second in importance only to the problem of cosmology. A current frontier in black hole research is the measurement of spin. Du…
astro-ph.HE2009★ 167 cited
A Determination of the Spin of the Black Hole Primary in LMC X-1
Lijun Gou, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jifeng Liu +7
The first extragalactic X-ray binary, LMC X-1, was discovered in 1969. In the 1980s, its compact primary was established as the fourth dynamical black-hole candidate. Recently, we…